You started work in a transcription lab working a with a novel bacteria phage. You isolated an enzyme that has RNA polymerase activity, and you discovered that your new viral RNA polymerase has a unique property. Unlike E. coli RNA polymerase, which prefers starting transcription with ATP, your new viral […]

Discoveries in DNA, cell biology, evolution, biotechnology have been among the major achievements in biology over the past 200 years with accelerated discoveries and insights over the last 50 years. Consider the progress we have made in these areas of human knowledge. Present at least three of the discoveries you […]

Q1. Hemoglobin is 50 percent saturated with oxygen when pO2 = 26 torr (i.e. P50 = 26 torr ). If hemoglobin exhibited hyperbolic binding (as myoglobin does) with 50 percent saturation at 26 torr, what will be the fractional saturation () when pO2 = 30 torr and 100 torr? What […]

7. In the year 2213, earth will be taken over by aliens.  The leader of the aliens will force certain humans to procreate in an attempt to create a “perfect” human while also giving the aliens’ underpaid geneticists an opportunity to test Mendel’s laws.  Big-mouthed and small-mouthed humans were crossed […]