The liver provides glucose to the rest of the body between meals. It does so by breaking down glycogen ,forming glucose 6-phosphate in the penultimate step. Glucose 6-phosphate is converted to glucose by splitting of the phosphate. Why do you suppose the liver removes the phosphate by hydrolysis, rather than […]

In Drosophila melanogaster you are studying three phenotypes that you suspect are linked on the same chromosome. THe homozygous recessive traits for each locus are: b leads to black body; vg leads to vestigial or poorly developed wings; bw for brown eyes.a. if b, vg, bw are unlinked what offspring […]

Assignment a) Read about this hypothetical experimental design and write a detailed summary of what is wrong with the proposed study. b) Your review should use vocabulary words that have been discussed in class and address the following questions. a. Is the study feasible? Will it actually be possible to […]

Garden pea producing round seeds were crossed with those producing wrinkled seeds. The result was the production of 5474 round seeds and 1850 wrinkled seeds. a) What is the original parental cross? b) Indicate the gamete types c) F1 progeny? d) What result do you expect when F1 is selfed? […]