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1.Paclitaxel is a anticancer drug. It stabilizes microtubules and as a result, interferes with the normal breakdown of microtubules (you will know about microtubules in future lectures).The structure of the Paclitaxel is given below   How many C, N, H and O atoms in paclitaxel Label in the picture the […]

The effects of early feeding experiences on later food preferences were studied in guinea pigs. The animals were grouped five per cage, and each of the three groups was fed only one type of food-A, B, or C-for three weeks. Then they were tested individually to determine their food preference […]

A stock homozygous for three recessive autosomal genes, a, b,and c, not necessarily linked on the same chromosome, ismated to a stock homozygous for their dominant wild-typealleles. F1 females are then backcrossed to males of thehomozygous recessive parental stock and thefollowing cross results are observed: Phenotype Number Phenotype Number a […]

A. MICROBIOME 1) In the accompanying microbiome dataset 1, which includes the known 16SrRNA sequences of 5 different gut microbiota, identify which species the last sequence (seq5) corresponds to. 2) Identify a substring in each sequence of no more than 30 bases that uniquely distinguishes each species but comes from […]