Q1. Why are traditional morphological and physiological characteristics such as organelles, movement, and nutrition not always reliable as synapomorphic character states? Q2. Suppose you wanted to create an integral membrane protein, and could only use 2 amino acids: L and S (plus 1 methionine to initiate protein synthesis). a) What […]

A 10 year old girl was bitten on the leg by a neighborhood dog and received several stitches 5 days ago. This morning she complained of increasing pain, and her mother noticed that the area around the stitches as red and warm to the touch. Her mother brought her to […]

Marty Mad is anemployee of Big Box. When Marty was hired, Big Box was in a jam to get moreworkers, so it did not do a background check. Marty works as a stocker andoccasionally as a checker.  One night, Marty is furious at his supervisor for refusing his vacationrequest. He […]

In the absence of the protein translating catalysts of the cell, what would be required to form a peptide bond between two adjacent amino acids such as that found in a proteins primary structure? If for example that catalyst was available for the formation of life from non-living tissue, how […]