Biology and Genetics

You become a Crime Scene Investigator and are analyzing one blood sample that ha

You become a Crime Scene Investigator and are analyzing one blood sample that has been obtained from an actual crime scene. You are using two SSLP markers (M1 and M2) for genotypi…

You become an Evolutionary Developmental Biologist and decide to identify the ge

You become an Evolutionary Developmental Biologist and decide to identify the genes that perform the same function as the C. elegans mom genes, but in a related species of nematod…

You begin a culture of Escherichia coil by inoculating 1 ml from a mid-log-phase

You begin a culture of Escherichia coil by inoculating 1 ml from a mid-log-phase culture that is 1.28 x10^6 cells per ml into 99 ml of the same fresh medium. This culture is shake…

You begin pouring sodium chloride into a glass of water. For a long time, the so

You begin pouring sodium chloride into a glass of water. For a long time, the sodium chloride just dissolves in the water, but suddenly it begins to pile up at the bottom of the g…

You begin your career in an acute care hospital as a newly licensed RN. During y

You begin your career in an acute care hospital as a newly licensed RN. During your orientation, you observe your preceptor checking gastric feeding tube placement by injecting ai…

You begin your career in an acute care hospital as a newly licensed RN. During y

You begin your career in an acute care hospital as a newly licensed RN. During your orientation, you observe your preceptor checking gastric feeding tube placement by injecting ai…

You believe a bacterium is attaching to animal cells by binding to the carbohydr

You believe a bacterium is attaching to animal cells by binding to the carbohydrate portion of a specific glycoprotein. To test this hypothesis you pre-incubate the bacteria with …

You breed Cactus Roses & you produce two pure breeding lines based upon petal sh

You breed Cactus Roses & you produce two pure breeding lines based upon petal shape: Round & Serrated. A single gene normally controls petal shape, i.e., there is 1 gene w…

You buy a box of Yummies, a delicious type of snack cake, after checking out the

You buy a box of Yummies, a delicious type of snack cake, after checking out the nutrition facts label on the side of the box you discover that a single Yummie cake contains 4.5 g…

You buy a box of Yummies, a delicious type of snack cake, after checking out the

You buy a box of Yummies, a delicious type of snack cake, after checking out the nutrition facts label on the side of the box you discover that a single Yummie cake contains 4.5 g…

You buy a new house and the front yard has some really nice rose bushes, but the

You buy a new house and the front yard has some really nice rose bushes, but they are surrounded by lots of weeds! You don't really want to try and dig them out by hand and your n…

You buy a new house and the front yard has some really nice rose bushes, but the

You buy a new house and the front yard has some really nice rose bushes, but they are surrounded by lots of weeds! You don't really want to try and dig them out by hand and your n…

You can bring in a 3x5\" card, handwritten, on both sides. See you on Thursday!

You can bring in a 3x5" card, handwritten, on both sides. See you on Thursday! How does the story of Foster Farms and salmonella Heidelberg demonstrate the consequences of industr…

You can estimate how much energy you need each day by recording your total food

You can estimate how much energy you need each day by recording your total food and beverage intake for a defined of time, such as 3 or 7 days. You can then use a food composition…

You can find annotated E. coli O26 genome here http://www.genome.jp/kegg-bin/sho

You can find annotated E. coli O26 genome here http://www.genome.jp/kegg-bin/show_organism?menu_type=pathway_maps&org=eoj. Using the information found from this website, answe…

You can no longer assume the population is at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Questi

You can no longer assume the population is at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Question 18: For goldfish, solid orange coloring is dominant while orange with black spots is recessive. …

You can right some simlp anwer of the following question: 1. What is the danger

You can right some simlp anwer of the following question: 1. What is the danger of stereotyping?• Tell me what you think? 2. What is a hypothesis and a prediction? •Define Hypothe…

You can see that the position of the star appears to have changed over the six-m

You can see that the position of the star appears to have changed over the six-month time period However, it is actually the angle from which the photos were taken that has change…

You can skip question 3. For question 7 one way is through chromatography, but w

You can skip question 3. For question 7 one way is through chromatography, but whats the other. In the pathway 2 is scarlett and 3 is the brown gene Biochemical Pathway for Drosop…

You can skip question 3. For question 7 one way is through chromatography, but w

You can skip question 3. For question 7 one way is through chromatography, but whats the other. In the pathway 2 is scarlett and 3 is the brown gene Biochemical Pathway for Drosop…

You can take any aspect of cell transport and elaborate on it in more detail. Fo

You can take any aspect of cell transport and elaborate on it in more detail. For example, how it works, what is getting transported, why transport is important, specific features…

You can take any aspect of cell transport and elaborate on it in more detail. Fo

You can take any aspect of cell transport and elaborate on it in more detail. For example, how it works, what is getting transported, why transport is important, specific features…

You can take any aspect of cell transport and elaborate on it in more detail. Fo

You can take any aspect of cell transport and elaborate on it in more detail. For example, how it works, what is getting transported, why transport is important, specific features…

You can\'t plant the leaves, you can\'t plant the fruit, but, if you plant the p

You can't plant the leaves, you can't plant the fruit, but, if you plant the part where leaves and fruit meet you will grow a whole pineapple plant. The part of the pineapple wher…

You carefully measured the average wet mass and dry mass* of samples of plant se

You carefully measured the average wet mass and dry mass* of samples of plant seedlings collected at sundown and the following sunrise from water-saturated soil: *Plants were init…

You carry out a DNA replication reaction using a single-stranded DNA template, D

You carry out a DNA replication reaction using a single-stranded DNA template, DNA polymerase, a primer, and the four deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates. You then add the nucleotid…

You caught a fish on a fishing expedition Its caudal fin is semi-lunate, its bod

You caught a fish on a fishing expedition Its caudal fin is semi-lunate, its body is fusiform and its mouth is terminal This fish is blue gray on top and its belly is white. White…

You change the conditions of a clear solution of a given protein and observe the

You change the conditions of a clear solution of a given protein and observe the formation of a while, flocculent (fluffy, sort of) sold. Explain a simple procedure that would giv…

You charge a piece of aluminum foil (mass = 5.97 g) by touching it to a charged

You charge a piece of aluminum foil (mass = 5.97 g) by touching it to a charged rod. The charged rod gives the aluminum foil a charge of 12 mu C. Your professor brings a charged p…

You cloned an EcoRI digested DNA fragment into a unique EcoRI site of a vector.

You cloned an EcoRI digested DNA fragment into a unique EcoRI site of a vector. You identify a recombinant vector that you believe has the DNA of interest. To generate a restricti…

You cloned an insert of approximately 3 kb into a single restriction site within

You cloned an insert of approximately 3 kb into a single restriction site within the multiple cloning site of a vector. The partial flanking sequences of the multiple cloning site…

You cloned and are expanding in vitro a human cytotoxic T cell, whose T-cell rec

You cloned and are expanding in vitro a human cytotoxic T cell, whose T-cell receptor is specific for a tumor antigen. Consequently, your analyses of nucleic acids in this T-cell …

You cloned and sequenced a 5 Kbp gene obtained from the zebra fish genome. An an

You cloned and sequenced a 5 Kbp gene obtained from the zebra fish genome. An analysis with NEB cutter generated the following map: The letters S, C, and K represent the restricti…

You cloned your favorite gene, TGIF, into a circular bacterial plasmid vector pN

You cloned your favorite gene, TGIF, into a circular bacterial plasmid vector pNIM. You identify two recombinants, plasmid X and plasmid Y, that contain the TGIF gene inserted in …

You collect several thousand Drosophila melanogaster individuals from the UC Dav

You collect several thousand Drosophila melanogaster individuals from the UC Davis campus. You take 1000 flies, establish a population in the laboratory and maintain it at a size …

You collect several thousand Drosophila melanogaster individuals from the UCD ca

You collect several thousand Drosophila melanogaster individuals from the UCD campus. You take 1000 flies, establish a population in the laboratory and maintain it at a size of 10…

You collected a sample of soil from your backyard to use for as a source of inoc

You collected a sample of soil from your backyard to use for as a source of inoculum for your isolate project, and want to use plating technique to determine the number of microbe…

You collected a sediment core from the Oregon Margin and you radiocarbon dated p

You collected a sediment core from the Oregon Margin and you radiocarbon dated planktonic foraminifera from the following depth and got the following radiocarbon ages. Using the c…

You collected data in the form of time to starch disappearance. However, enzyme

   You collected data in the form of time to starch disappearance. However, enzyme activity is usually quoted as a rate. Convert your collected data to rate form (mg of substrate …

You come across a membrane protein that has been determined to be involved with

You come across a membrane protein that has been determined to be involved with the passive transport process. A gene has been identified for the protein however you are unable to…

You conduct a clinical trial study and randomly assign 1,000 patients to drug A

You conduct a clinical trial study and randomly assign 1,000 patients to drug A and 1,000 patients to drug B. Among patients assigned to Drug A, 600 complete the trial. Among pati…

You conduct a transformation experiment using the pBR322 plasmid which has tetra

You conduct a transformation experiment using the pBR322 plasmid which has tetracycline resistance. In this experiment, you added E. coli cells to a high salt solution and then pu…

You conduct a trihbybrid cross starting with a parental generation consisting of

You conduct a trihbybrid cross starting with a parental generation consisting of a female expressing the mutant condition for all three traits and a male that is wild type for all…

You conduct an experiment putting a celery stock in water and another celery sta

You conduct an experiment putting a celery stock in water and another celery stalk in salt water. What are you cells are you expecting to see under the microscope of the cells of …

You conduct an experiment to investigate the effects of temperature and pH on th

You conduct an experiment to investigate the effects of temperature and pH on the action of amylase, an enzyme that digests carbohydrates. After incubating your samples for 1 hour…

You construct a reporter gene for the Wnt pathway consisting of a promoter to wh

You construct a reporter gene for the Wnt pathway consisting of a promoter to which -catenin can bind, upstream of a series of MS2 repeats and a lacZ gene sequence. You integrate …

You consume a meal high in carbohydrates the night before a big race. Explain wh

You consume a meal high in carbohydrates the night before a big race. Explain what type of mechanism will be used to transport glucose from your intestine to your muscles. The rel…

You could hear her whisting, wheezing breathing preceding her down the hallway.

You could hear her whisting, wheezing breathing preceding her down the hallway. "Diagnostic COPD", reads Edna Wilson's patient chart COPD is the acronym for Unfortunately. Edna ha…

You could kill a starfish by cutting off its arms. Reptiles never have gill slit

You could kill a starfish by cutting off its arms. Reptiles never have gill slits. The heart of an adult amphibian has three chambers. Phloem transports organic nutrients from lea…

You could kill a starfish by cutting off its arms. Reptiles never have gill slit

You could kill a starfish by cutting off its arms. Reptiles never have gill slits. The heart of an adult amphibian has three chambers. Phloem transports organic nutrients from lea…