Word For The Day

Word For The Day:

Troika: It is a Russian word referring to three horses pulling a load, like a carriage. The word has been used to describe a trio of hearts, a trio of men, a trio of minds pulling to accomplish a goal with mutual effort.

Elucidate: Means to explain, making a subject have a clear understanding.

Evolvere: Latin meaning to develop, unroll, reveal, discover, and yes, to evolve.

Epigenetics: In biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene activity that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence; it also can be used to describe the study of stable, long-term alterations in the transcriptional potential of a cell that are not necessarily heritable. The term also refers to the changes themselves: functionally relevant changes to the genome that do not involve a change in the nucleotide sequence. In more simple terms: epigenetics is needed for a species to evolve. Sometimes it takes from just a few generations to hundreds for evolutionary changes to take place. The Greek prefix epi- in epigenetics implies features that are "on top of" or "in addition to" genetics; thus epigenetic traits exist on top of or in addition to the traditional molecular basis for inheritance.

Cloning. In our modern world today, most everyone knows what cloning means: to create an identical copy. Human cloning has the same goal; to create an genetically identical copy of a human. In 1998 the first human clone was created by Advanced Cell Technologies. The first that was publicly announced. There my be an cloning underground that operates in secret. They took a cell from a man's leg and a cow's egg with the DNA removed and created a genetically identical human clone. It was destroyed on the 12th day since a normal embryo implants at 14 days.