Microbiology and Industry in Petroleum Fuels For project 1 you will do your background research. Specifically, you will choose a suitable topic, identify appropriate resources, and generate a brief outline of the article which you will write for Project 2. Your topic must fall under the following subheadings: Microbiology and […]

NASA scientists have brought back from Mars a molecule they think is similar to DNA. Just like DNA, it is transcribed into a mRNA-like molecule. Unlike mRNA on Earth, though, it appears to use only three bases (A, C and T). Assuming that proteins were still made from this mRNA […]

Q1. In guinea pigs, black (B) is dominant to brown (b), and dolid colour (S) is dominant to spotted (s). A heterozygous black, solid-coloured pig is mated with brown, spotted pig. The total offspring for several litters are black solid=16, black spotted=5, brown solid=5, and brown spotted=14. Are these genes […]

By convention, P stands for the parental generation.  The offspring are called the “first filial generation,” abbreviated F1.  If these F1 offspring are crossed, their offspring are called the “second filial generation,” designated F2.  Note the following diagram.             P  X  P       and      F1  X  F1                F1                             […]