1) Fill up three medium-sized bowls with the following: a) Very hot tap water, b) Very cold tap water, and c) A mixture of very hot and very cold water. Organize them, so your right hand is in the front of cold water, your left hand is in front of […]

1. Based on what we have learned in this week’s lessons about how the brain works and reading the Hartley article choose a specific disease or condition to discuss that you think may or may not be affected by using rewiring techniques. Are there some conditions you feel are more […]

You have discovered an E. coli mutant that expresses a lac operon cap protein that is unable to bind cAMP. If you grew that mutant in glucose, lactose, IPTG, and glucose and lactose how would the galactosidase activity differ from an E. coli strain containing a functional lac operon? What […]

Assume you infected an E. coli culture with a virulent bacteriophage. Most of the cells lysed, but a few survived – 1×10^-4. You wonder where the resistant bacteria came from. Were they caused by the bacteriophage infection or did they already exist in the bacterial culture? Earlier, for a different […]