An Indian chile pepper variety, Bhut Jolokia, originating from Assam has been declared the world’s hottest chile pepper. The vernacular name Bhut Jolokia translates as ‘ghost chile’. The results of the study conducted by Paul W. Bosland and Jit B. Baral were published in the journal HortScience. The Indian variety beat the previous record set [...]
Archive for October 26th, 2007
World’s hottest chile pepper is an Indian variety
Posted in Plants on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Retrotransposons and retroposons: Subtle nuances
Posted in Genome organization, Repetitive DNA, Transposable Elements on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The transposable elements that transpose via an RNA intermediate are of two kinds: Retrotransposons and retroposons.
1) Retrotransposons: They resemble retroviruses and encode reverse transcriptase enzyme.
2) Retroposons: Neither do they resemble retroviruses nor do they code for their own reverse transcriptase.
Retrotransposons: The genetic information of retroviruses is encoded in RNA, which is transcribed into DNA by [...]
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