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Discussion The Skin: Our Largest Organ Did you know that the skin is our largest organ in the body? Many different skin reactions can occur that can be acute or chronic. Tell us about a reaction you have experienced and could it have been prevented? What did you use to […]

Humans are adapting to the enviroment by creating aids/tools; we are actually on the verge of being able to select desired traits by using genetic engineering, in-vitro fertilization, and other molecular biology tools. For example, we can now detect and correct some genetic diseases and we also have the tools […]

A dominant allele, B, Causes blaze, a white forelock of hair in humans. The recessive allele fr albinism, a, prevents the formation of melanin in any part of the body, so the hair is white all over. A man with a blaze had a albino mother. He marries an albino […]

Assignment – 1. A miRNA is overexpressed in a number of different cell types.  Some of the cell lines die. Why might that be so?  Three or four sentences at most. 2. What role does Argonaute play in the cell? 1 or 2 sentences. 3. What are the top 10 […]