You fill a cuvette with a solution of enzyme, substrate, and dye that changes color as the reaction occurs. You put it in a spectrophotometer and record the absorbance at several time points. The absorbance increases at first, then starts to level off, staying almost exactly the same at each […]

Reflection Prompts 1. What were your initial expectations about the Service Learning project in this class? Have these expectations changed? How? 2. What about your community involvement has been an eye-opening experience? 3. How has your understanding of the community changed as a result of your participation in this project? […]

Q. 1. Modern theory suggests that an early (pre-life) atmosphere on Earth was a reducing one. Why (for what reasons) is it believed that oxygen was not present while life formed on Earth? 2. What proposed energy sources existed on this early (pre-life) Earth? 3. In 1950s, Stanley Miller performed […]

1. What is the difference between genotype and phenotype? 2. What is the difference between haploid and diploids? 3. What is the difference between a null mutation and a conditional mutation? 4. What are the two types of conditional mutations? 5. What is the difference between a genetic selection and […]