Q1. A doctor will give you an antibiotic to treat the bacterial infection, but you are given a vaccine to keep a virus (and some bacteria) from making you ill. What is the dissimilarity between these approaches? Q2. Explain the composition and function of the cell body. How are axons […]

A man has a heritable disease, which his father suffers from, along with his son. His father’s symptoms are comparatively light, where his sons are profound and seen at a much earlier age. What is a good explanation for the mechanism that is causing this inheritance pattern? trinucleotide repeats are […]

A researcher recently finds out a mutant mouse with an interesting T cell phenotype. He called this new mutation: HD,” bred the mouse and then used these founders to produce a strain homozygous for HD. Some of his findings are summarized in the table below:   Thymocytes Lymph node t […]

Tragedy of the Commons Lab Objective: To enable students to learn how a common resource can become depleted when that resource is not regulated in some way because people act from self-interest for short term gain. Materials:• 1 paper bowl per group of 4 students• 1 package of M&M’s• 2 […]