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You have been asked to write a presentation for your local legislative body on postconviction DNA testing. Prisoners and various civil rights groups have lobbied for prisoners to have access to DNA testing to prove their innocence. Some states have been supportive of this trend, and others have not. Recently, […]

1. Describe, in general, how sperm cells are formed.2. Describe, in general, how ova are formed.3. Describe the structure of a mammalian egg follicle.4. Describe the structure of an amphibian egg.5. Describe the sequence of events that surrounds fertilization.6. What evidence exists that membrane potential is involved in thefast block […]

1. What sequence of nucleotide pairs in a Drosophila gene will encode the amino acid sequence met-trp-phe-trp-met (reading from the amino terminus to the carboxyl terminus)? 2. A wild type gene contains the trinucleotide-pair sequence:was 5′-GAG-3′ changed to:5′-GTG-3′3’CTC -5′ 3′-CAC-5′If the second base pair in this gene segment will change […]

You have been discussing your new “molecular prowess” and people have noticed. You have been given the opportunity to propose a molecular assay and develop a molecular laboratory. This will require that you write a proposal to administration. This proposal must include your assay design and equipment list. You must […]