Discussion:
Epignetics and Complex Gene Regulation.
Epigenetics and complex gene regulation have fundamentally altered the way we deal with bioinformatics and biotechnology. Come to the exam prepared to discuss how the following topics related to or affected by this newfound knowledge:
(a) linking phenotype to genotype
(b) the use of cancer cell lines and stem cell lines in research in light of the genetic changes that made the cells immortal
(c) the interpretation that the 99% of our DNA that is never translated to protein is "garbage"