In the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, a spineless (no wing bristles) female fly is mated to a male that is claret (dark eyes) and hairless (no thoracic bristles). Phenotypically wild-type F1 female progeny were mated to fully homozygous (mutant) males, and the following progeny (1000 total) were observed:       Phenotypes                 […]

Question 1 Future drugs and vaccines for the use against Ebola Pick an experimental drug, vaccine or other treatment that is being considered in the fight against Ebola. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/qa-experimental-treatments.html Write a response to the following discussion question in the Discussion forum: How exactly does the experimental treatment you have chosen […]

Your final project in Unit 9 is a research paper on autoimmune disease or an immunodeficiency not covered in class. For your Unit 7 assignment, you will begin your final project by gathering some preliminary information regarding your project andanswering the following questions:1. Identify the autoimmune disease or an immunodeficiency […]

1. Consider two parents. One parent does not have the insertion in either of version of her chromosome 16. The other parent does have the insert in both versions of hischromosome 16. If you were provided with DNA from their offspring, how many bands would you expect to see if […]