For this Assignment you will think about your individual health and health risks. What genetic diseases or problems might you face during your lifetime? Predisposition to heart disease, breast cancer, diabetes? You may consider your own health risks or those of other individuals such as a family member or friend. […]

Bacteria that have been exposed to two different bacterial strains: one carries only a gene for resistance to the antibiotic Ampicillin; the other carries the gene for Ampicillin resistance as well as a gene for green fluorescent protein (GFP), which glows under UV light. Some bacteria took up the Ampicillin-resistance […]

A population of Anopheles mosquitoes reaches very high densities, and is subjected to aerial spraying by DDT. The following six years, the mosquitoes are not observed at all, but the population was sprayed “just in case”. An outbreak occurs sevem years later,however, and this time, the aerial spraying with DDT […]

1. Select a molecule. List the atoms that that molecule is composed of and describe the type of bond that holds those atoms together. Be sure to explain how this bond works. 2. Often, prokaryotic cells exist as simple unicellular organisms, but in some species, prokaryotic cells can grow together […]