Q. Recognizes true statements of cholesterol and its fluidity. 1. Cholesterol decreases membrane fluidity in areas called rafts that include large amounts of sphingolipids and cholesterol. 2. Cholesterol inhibits crystallization that would else occur in membranes rich in unsaturated fatty acids. 3. Cholesterol is usually buried in a bilayer, with […]

The Young and the Restless (soap opera) has a couple people that suffer from a rapid aging syndrome that involved a young child that is sent off to boarding school and returns 3 months as an teenager. Victimes have been known to age up to two decades in variations of […]

Q. You own Falzer’s Tool Coating Company, a high-tech firm specializing in the coating of cutting tools (such as drill bits, cutting blades) to provide longer life before re-sharpening is needed. You are worried that the competition continues to develop new coating methods and new applications of coating in different […]

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a technique wherechromosomes on a slide can be denatured, allowing single-strandedDNA probes labelled with a fluorescent dye to anneal to genomicDNA. For each of the following fluorescent probe DNAs, draw a humanchromosome in metaphase and indicate how the chromosome will bestained by hybridization of […]