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1. XPA is a recessive DNA repair disorder that causes skin cancer with even the smallest exposure to sunlight. Heterozygotes (Xx) are carriers, but are not affected. In the U.S., 1/250,000 people have the disease. In Japan, 1 in 22,000 has the disease. What is the frequency of the mutated […]

Search the Internet for versions of the food guides (food pyramid) for Africans.  Please provide an assessment of the guide in terms of effectiveness in addressing the population, in usability, in accuracy of information, etc. Think about a population in which the frequency of allele A is p = 0.7 and the […]

Chronic inflammation is responsible for many of the debilitating effects of auto-immune, and other, diseases. In pathogenic inflammatory diseases, high levels of immune system cells (particularly macrophages, neutrophils, and TH1 cells) migrate from the blood to the tissue over a prolonged period of time. Pretend that you are writing a […]

Students will write a paper on one side of a current controversy in nutrition. The paper will include the findings of at least two primary studies that were published in nutrition or medical journals, and provide a very brief review of a well-referenced book, or, as an alternative to a […]