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What is the difference between positive and negative selection? Why are Ne and s critical for determining whether population is affected by selection or drift?
Describe a scenario from a current event in news or media where an individual with a genetic disorder experienced discrimination in obtaining health insurance.
What is the genotype of the purple, hairy parent? Write the genotype for the P gene first and do not put any spaces in between the genotypes of the two genes.
Briefly describe the data. What does the gel look like? How do digests compare to each other(i.e. which RE results in the most fragments?
How does sexual reproduction ensure genetic diversity and increase the chances of survival in a changing environment?
Nutrition and Genetics- Read and write about the types of mutation. How does sexual reproduction contribute to variation?
The CT value for a Real-time PCR reaction starting with 15 ng DNA template is 27. What will be the CT value if starting with 4 times as much DNA template?
What sample would you request for a confirmatory test and why? What is the predicted karyotype ISCN diagnosis of the fetus based on FISH analysis?
In Jill's case, her diagnosis was correct. What are the potential downsides to trying to self diagnose? What effect does a mutated lamin gene have on Priscilla?
Explain the importance of having the molecular data (protein) information instead of only anatomical traits, to explain the relatedness of species.
Provide: Authors, Year, Title, Journal, Volume and Page Numbers along with short description of what Gibson Assembly was used for. Provide the link to article.
What is a transcriptome? What is an ORFeome? Are they the same? How would you map which parts of a fully sequenced genome are expressed?
Has parents with dangling earlobes and a grandmother with attached earlobes, is it accurate to say she inherited this trait from her grandmother?
How does this lbh polymorphism stack up against other instances of coding alterations connected to ongoing morphological variation?
Can you complement a dominant mutation? Why or why not? What would tip you off that the mutation you've isolated is dominant and how would you check?
Describe the source(s) that you used to find this (it should be something reliable). Describe the phenotype. What is it? How is it inherited? What causes it?
How many chromosomes would you expect to find in the cells resulting from such a division, and why?
You need to make up a 1 M solution of palladium(II) acetate to use as a catalyst for an experiment. What is the total volume of your resulting solution?
What is the probability that a cross between Aa Bb × Aa bb parents will produce three out of five offspring that are brown and short?
How many phenotypes for fur color are there in these mice? What does this tell you about the relationship between the two alleles?
Oncogene expression was first observed in cancer cells. Explain the role of oncogene products in normal, noncancerous cells.
Provide examples of each component of an endophenotype and explain how they are linked into a single instance of an endophenotype.
Examine the "ideal" or mock gel shown in Figure 5 that includes DNA samples that have been cut with three restriction enzymes, BamHI, EcoRI, and HindIII.
What is DNA, what are its functions, and where is it located? In what ways has the discovery of DNA changed the world in the past 60 years?
What is the best explanation for this genetic outcome? Write the genotypes for the parents (P generation), the gametes produced by each parent and the offspring