Weathering and erosion. Weathering is the process where rock is dissolved, worn away or broken down into smaller and smaller pieces. There are mechanical, chemical and organic weathering processes.
What is trinucleotide repeat disorders? A class of genetic diseases that causes expansion of the number of trinucleotide (three base repeats of CG-rich units) within a gene sometimes associated with deleterious consequences.
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) or recurrent polyserositis is a recessively inherited disorder, clinically characterized by inflammation of the serosal, synovial and cutaneous tissues with clinical fever episodes which usually limits itself.