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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 […]

Perform visual comparison of the assigned two putatively related nucleic acid sequences x and y. Indicate in your answer the identities by 1s on match and 0s on mismatches. Also indicate mutations by the scoring indices S for transition and V for transversion: Please show details and computations x: T […]

Imagine you have engineered a set of genes, each encoding a protein with a pair of conflicting signal sequences that specify different compartments. If the genes were expressed in a cell, predict which signal would win out for the following combinations. Explain your reasoning. (a) Signals for import into the […]