Little about GENE

What Is a Gene?

Each cell in the human body contains about 25,000 to 35,000 genes, which carry information that determines your traits (say: trates). Traits are characteristics you inherit from your parents; this means your parents pass some of their characteristics on to you through genes. For example, if both of your parents have green eyes, you might inherit the trait of green eyes from them. Or if your mom has freckles, you might inherit that trait and wind up with a freckled face. And genes aren't just in humans — all animals and plants have genes, too.

Genes hang out all lined up on thread-like things called chromosomes (say: kro-moh-somes). Chromosomes come in pairs, and there are hundreds, sometimes thousands, of genes in one chromosome. The chromosomes and genes are made of DNA, which is short for deoxyribonucleic (say: dee-ox-see-ri-bo-nyoo-clay-ik) acid.

Chromosomes are found inside cells, the very small units that make up all living things. A cell is so tiny that you can only see it through the lens of a strong microscope, and there are billions of cells in your body. Most cells have one nucleus (say: noo-clee-us). The nucleus, which is sort of egg-shaped, is like the brain of the cell. It tells every part of the cell what to do. How does the nucleus know so much? It contains our chromosomes and genes. As tiny as it is, the nucleus has more information in it than the biggest dictionary you've ever seen.

In humans, a cell nucleus contains 46 individual chromosomes or 23 pairs of chromosomes (chromosomes come in pairs, remember? 23 X 2 = 46). Half of these chromosomes come from one parent and half come from the other parent. But not every living thing has 46 chromosomes inside of its cells. For instance, a fruit fly cell only has four chromosomes

Each gene has a special job to do. It carries blueprints — the instructions — for making proteins (say: pro-teens) in the cell. Proteins are the building blocks for everything in your body. Bones and teeth, hair and earlobes, muscles and blood, all are made up of proteins (as well as other stuff). Those proteins help our bodies grow, work properly, and stay healthy. Scientists today estimate that each gene in the body may make as many as 10 different proteins. That's over 300,000 proteins!

Like chromosomes, genes come in pairs. Each of your biological parents has two copies of each of their genes, and each parent passes along just one copy to make up the genes you have. Genes that are passed on to you determine many of your traits, such as your hair color and skin color.

What Is Gene Therapy?

Gene therapy uses the technology of genetic engineering to cure or treat a disease caused by a gene that has changed in some way. This is a new kind of medicine, and scientists are still doing experiments to see if it works. One method they are trying is replacing sick genes with healthy ones. Gene therapy trials — where the research is tested on people — and other research may lead to new ways to treat or even prevent many diseases.

Email etiqette

Email etiqette is generally informal, but in business email it's important to set the right tone. Before you put your fingers on the keyboard, think about who you are writing email to. Are you writing up to management, down to employees, across to colleagues, or out to customers with your business email?

Consider how you would talk to the person if you were face to face. You don't talk the same way to a customer or the president of your company as you talk to your colleague in the next office. Think about how you interact with this person, to help you gage the right level of formality for your email message. This will help you use a sincere, appropriate voice for your email.

Remember also that email in the US and Canada is generally informal, but if you are writing email to an international business contact, always maintain more formal email etiquette. Ask yourself:

1. Who is my reader?
2. What is my relationship to the reader?
3. What do I want the reader to do?

You create different voices by changing your level of language. Your email can range from formal to conversational to friendly.

Email etiquette - setting a formal tone

• Begin with Dear (name of person)
• Address the reader by title (Mr., Ms, Dr.)
• Use formal, respectful language
• Don't use contractions (use You would, instead of You'd)
• Use objective words and specific terminology
• Close with the words Sincerely or Yours truly, and your name and job title

Email etiquette - using a conversational tone

• Begin with an informal greeting with the reader's first name, such as Hi or Hello (name)
• Use a friendly but professional tone
• Use some contractions (I'm instead of I am)
• Keep the message lighter, based on a connection between you and the reader
• Have a brief, friendly closing, using your first name only, and your job title if applicable

Email etiquette - using a friendly voice

• Start with a casual greeting, such as Hi (name),
• Use contractions (Can't instead of Cannot)
• Use appropriate humor
• Use jargon & slang as long as it doesn't become unprofessional
• Use a casual closing with your first name only, no job title

RBI Guidelines To Identify Fake Currency Notes

Each of us, one time or the other have been cheated by Fake currency notes.

Here is the RBI guide lines to identify the fake currency notes.

Quotes for MEN

"I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste."
-David Bissonette

"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. "
-Sacha Guitry

"After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. "
-Hemant Joshi

"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. "
-Socrates

"Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them. "
-Dumas

"The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, 'What does a woman want?' "
-Sigmund Freud

"I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "
-Anonymous

"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
-Henny Youngman

"I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years."
-Sam Kinison

"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage."
-James Holt McGavran

"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't."
-Patrick Murray

"Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming 1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it, 2. Whenever you're right, shut up. "
-Nash

"The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once... "
-Anonymous

"You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to. "
-Henny Youngman

"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. "
-Rodney Dangerfield

"A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong."
-Milton Berle

"Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy. "
-Anonymous

"A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: 'Wife wanted'. Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: 'You can have mine."
-Anonymous

"First Guy (proudly): 'My wife's an angel!' Second Guy: 'You're lucky, mine's still alive."'
-Anonymous

Accessing blocked websites using CALCULATOR

When both Domain Name & IP Address are banned, Use Calculator to Access that Website
Wuntoo has written a detailed comment on how to bypass the internet content filtering software of your school or office using just the calculator application (Start->Run. type calc.exe). This unique Mathematics based trick will probably work when websites are blocked in your institution or corporate network based on the host name or their IP address.

The trick is to convert the human readable website address that's blocked (like bebo.com) into an IP address ( 208.75.184.160) and again translate this value to a decimal address which is probably not blocked by the website filters.

Here's a step by step guide to render www.myspace. com to a decimal address:

How to Access Restricted Websites

1) get its IP address (216.178.39.74), by pinging the name (if you have a direct internet connection) or if you only have access via a web proxy then find it out by using a networking website like network-tools. com.

2) start your PC's calculator, and change it to scientific mode (using the "View" menu)

3) enter each of the four IP octets, one by one, converting them to binary (enter number and click on the "Bin" radio button)
Thus 216.178.39.74 becomes216 = 11011000178 = 1011001039 = 0010011174 = 01001010 Notice how any binary numbers less than 8 digits long have had leading zeroes added to pad them out. Reassembled into IP address order, you get 11011000.10110010. 00100111. 01001010

4) Remove the dots, so you get one huge line of binary, thus: 1101100010110010001 0011101001010

5) Copy this binary string

6) Go to your scientific calculator, and hit the "Bin" button FIRST (as you are about to enter binary), THEN paste in the binary string.

7) Click on the "Dec" button on your calculator, and you will get the converted value of 3635554122

8) Add the hypertext protocol prefix and paste into your browser's address bar: http://3635554122

Wuntoo adds: I used to be in a place that had websense, where both website names and their corresponding IP addresses were blocked. However was able to get limited access by converting the IP address to decimal, which websense (at the time) did not know about. This might have changed since, or if your school runs an old version it might still work. Note that if you surf away from the page you might hit websense blocks again unless you manually reconstruct the next address you want to get to.