Question 1 Which of the following is true regarding endocrine glands? Answer As the body matures, endocrine glands develop from specialized exocrine glands. Endocrine glands empty their products into a duct. Examples of endocrine glands include sweat glands and salivary glands. Endocrine glands are connective tissues that are specialized to […]

PKU (phenylketonuria) is an enzyme deficiency disease that only develops in individuals who are homozygous recessive for that gene. An individual with PKU has parents that do not have this disease. What is the parents’ genotype for the gene responsible for PKU? What is the probability that they may have […]

1. Explain the difference between a genotype and a phenotype. Think or use a Punnett Square in your answer.2. Think about the use of the Punnett square or your knowledge of meiosis. Explain how the evidence DNA profile and knowing the DNA profile of an offspring can lead to a […]

A biologist was testing E. coli for thymidine requirement. She found a thy- point mutant and wanted to study reversion to thy+. She grew 20 cultures of the thy- mutant strain and plated them onto 20 plates that contained media to select for thy+ revertants. She obtained a total of […]