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Atmosphere escape is one term for the phenomenon. "Atmospheric escape of hydrogen on Earth is due to Jeans escape (~10 - 40%), charge exchange escape (~ 60 - 90%), and polar wind escape (~ 10 - 15%), currently losing about 3 kg/s of hydrogen.[1] The Earth additionally loses approximately 50 g/s...

Kind of. If one of the alleles has gained a new stop codon very early in the coding, you can predict it won't make the whole protein anymore. If the new product is easy to dispose of that allele will be effectively 'silenced', and the cell will probably make less of the functioning protein...

That's not quite how alleles work, they don't both give "part" of a gene and together combine to make "a gene". A gene that works and has a standard form, could be thought of like a "normal master copy" of that gene (not all genes in reality have one really common form that could be thought of...

Where Scienceyboi wrote, "mitochondria or appropriate chromosomal DNA, which use a mix of mtDNA and chDNA signals " chDNA is the short for "chromosomal DNA" just like mtDNA is the short for "mitochondrial DNA".

There really isn't a set amount of time that droplets stay suspended, because droplets from coughing and sneezing can vary greatly in size, and the smallest "can stay suspended indefinitely" depending on simple air currents in the location...

Hey all, I've got a B.S. in Biology, but genetics is something greatly interesting to me, and I took all the classes I could about genetics as I chased my degree. Unfortunately, I side with the teacher because of the exact phrasing of the question, and I'll mention that I dislike how the...