Case study – 1 A terrible plague of H3N2 influenza has begun to decimate the earth’s population. You convince your boss at your pharmaceutical company to let you work on developing a new neuraminidase inhibitor to combat this new strain. You make several hundred potential inhibitors and assay them with […]

The condition known as jaundice (yellow skin and eyes) is a result of a buildup of bilirubin and is usually a sign of liver malfunction. Newborn human infants often go through a period of fetal jaundice in which they turn yellow. This usually reflects not a liver malfunction, but rather […]

Assume you are analyzing microbial life in the Rocky Mountains. You scoop up a water sample from a melted snow puddle because you are curious about the possible microbes that might live there. Using your microscope, you examine several drops of the sample on microscope slides. Your examination reveals that […]

Q1. Which condition is best described while the ovaries shut down their production of eggs and hormones like estrogens and progesterone approximately 30 years after they started? Q2. The male wasp Campsoscolia ciliata transfers pollen from one orchid to another orchid of the same species. What “reward” does the male […]