Biology

Gene Silencing

Gene silencing is an epigenetic alteration of gene expression that causes formerly active individual genes or larger chromosomal regions to become inactive. Changes in DNA methylation levels and changes in covalent modifications of histone proteins cause chromatin compaction, making genes inaccessible to the transcription machinery. Posttranscriptional gene silencing can occur due to mRNA degradation and/or

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Biology, UPSC

Fossil Primates

Primates classify the highest order of the animal kingdom. All the living primates have evolved and ‘adaptively radiated’ from a common ancestor. . Fossil primates show a palaeontological record of evolutionary processes. These changes mainly stretch over the last 65 to 80 million years. They help form a substantiated and solid bridge between living primates

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Biology, UPSC

Forest PLUS 2.0 Program

Forest-PLUS 2.0: forest for water and prosperity (also known as Forest-PLUS 2.0) is a five-year partnership between USAID and the Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Climate Change (MoEFCC). The Forest-PLUS 2.0 contract was awarded by USAID on December 4, 2018. The goal of the program is to provide technical assistance to the Indian government and

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Biology, UPSC