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Rosalind Franklin's Contribution to DNA Structure.What is the controversy around the history of the discovery of the structure of DNA?
What genes are involved with the regulation mammalian "biological clock" causing it to maintain a consistent 24 hour cycle?
How did human populations adapt to alcohol consumption and how did they adapt to milk consumption in adult life?
Under mutation-selection balance, what is the equilibrium frequency of the recessive allele? What is the equilibrium frequency of the genetic illness?
Explain the viral strategy behind this and how promoter modification occurs.
Explain how knowledge of DNA and technology is being used today to do things that we could not have done 50 years ago.
What are the components of an operon? What important regulator is not part of the actual operon?
What is the minimum number of replication units present in the Drosophila genome?
Compare the repressive effects of chromatin and DNA modifications with the repressive effects of RNAi. Including:
What are two of the major challenges associated with studying ancient DNA?Provide two key insights into the evolutionary history of Neandertals
What is the relationship between iron and DtxR? Why do the Class II mutants shut off toxin expression completely?
What is the significance of the first and last codons of an mRNA transcript?
List three residues involved with hydrogen bonds to DNA. List interactions like this: "LYS89-T6" means a hydrogen bondbetween lysine
What is the function of "stress" proteins under heat shock conditions and how is this related to their function under normal conditions?
What function does the "leader sequence" have in RNA translation. What would happen if it were missing? Does this proteinneed a leader sequence?
DNA composition from mycobacterium tuberculosis.A sample of DNA purified from Mycobacterium tuberculosis contains 15.1%
Calculate the percent of base present in DNA.If cytosine makes up 22% of the nucleotides in a sample of DNA from an organism,
DNA is precipitated out of a water solution by adding an alcohol. Why do think DNA is less soluble in alcohol than in water?
Calculating numbers of RNA nucleotides from amino acids.If a single polypeptide chain protein contains 185 amino acids
How many peptide bonds are there in a pentapeptide?
What is the problem they are experimenting on?What is the activity of a protein and why is it important?
Determining the subunit composition of a protein from data. Would you help me with the following problem?
In vitro translation and the production of active proteins.Knowing the sequence of a protein, a scientist synthesizes the corresponding RNA.
What is the role of DNA in the cell?What is the role of mRNA and why is it necessary? What is the name of the process in which mRNA is produces?
Explain the easiest way to do this and provide some general background information on mRNA translating.