Both eye color and leg length are inherited in a dominant-recessive fashion in fruit flies. Fruit fly wings can either be wildtype (P), or have purple eyes (p), and either wildtype (S) or have short legs (s). Fill in the Punnett Square for this scenario. If you cross a female […]

Mary’s grandmother slipped on a scatter rug and fell heavily to the floor. Her left lower limb was laterally rotated and noticeably shorter than her right, and when she attempted to get up, she winced with pain. Mary surmised that her grandmother might have “fractured her hip,” which later proved […]

You will choose a disease or condition that have present or future stem cell treatments (maximum of 4000 words-four pages single space). What systems are affected? How does it affect the body? How many people in the US and/or world are affected with this disease? Briefly discuss the normal function […]

Comp 7/ Bio 40 Project: Reliability of Metagenomics Reads Background In this class, we are studying 16S rRNA metagenomic sequencing, in which the sequences read come from one of the hypervariable regions of the 16S rRNA genes, which are generally well conserved across prokaryotes. Because of the variability in the […]