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1) What is the general purpose of photosynthesis? 2) describe the anatomy of a chloroplast and where they are found. 3)What are the sources of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen in the photosynthetic reaction? 4)What is sunlight? 5)How is sunlight converted to chemical energy? 1)describe how chlorophyll captures light energy? 2)what […]

1) Discuss the concepts of homologous chromosome – diploid and haploid. What characteristies are shared between two homologous chromosomes? 2) If two chromosomes of a species are the same length and have a similar centromere placement but are not homologous, what is different about them? 3) Contrast the genetic content […]

Consider normal skin pigmentation (A) dominant to albino (a) and susceptibility to migraine headache (M) dominant to normal (m). The loci are autosomal. Assume that both parents are heterozygous for the skin colour and migraine traits described above. a) What is the probability they will have children in the following […]

How many different 6-mer sequences of DNA are there? (Hint: There are 16 possible dinucleotides and 64 possible trinucleotides). We can quantify the information-carrying capacity of nucleic acids in the following way. Each position can be one of four bases, corresponding to two bits of information (22 = 4). Thus, […]