Q1. Drug effects are conditional. Drugs can target redundant gene products not limited to model systems Active compounds can help define drug leads and new “druggable” targets. Target identification can be technically challenging probably not as random as mutagenesis. What is essential for effective chemical genetics? Q2. Describe the term […]

You are free to introduce other concepts/frameworks as well.  For the future, be sure to indicate both actual and potential competitors and collaborators.  Your paper should be ten pages, double-spaced, using 12-point type, not including appendixes, exhibits, and/or references.  As with your individual papers, you may either write an essay […]

Q1. Cindy, an overweight high school student, is overheard telling her friend that she is going to research how she could transform some of her white fat to brown fat. What is her rationale here, assume this is possible? Q2. Assume a level area of granite rock was the parent […]

Jimmy, a new undergraduate researcher in the lab, is told to make a vector (or plasmid) containing a copy of the CELLBIO gene from Dr. Acosta’s genome as well as a selectable gene, Ampr. Knowing the steps needed to create a vector/plasmid that we discussed in class/and that you describe […]