There is an unfortunate individual whose carbonic anhydrase (CA) does not function properly. In order to explain in one way what effect this would this have, focus on the red blood cell in the systemic circulation. (1) Draw a diagram of a red blood cell in a systemic capillary and […]

Q1. A unit of area often used in measuring land areas is the hectare, defined as 104 m2. An open-pit coal mine consumes 62 hectares of land, down to a depth of 32 m, each year. What volume of earth, in cubic kilometres, is removed in this time? Q2. What […]

Q. The phenotype of vestigial (short) wings (vg) in Drosophila melonogaster is caused by a recessive mutant gene that independently assorts with a recessive gene for hairy (h) body. Suppose that a cross is made between a fly with normal wings and a hairy body and a fly with vestigial […]

The src gene product is a nonreceptor protein kinase called pp60src. This protein is a tyrosine protein kinase that phosphorylates target proteins at specific tyrosine residues. This tyrosine protein kinase is an integral member of a signal transduction pathway leading to the transition from G2 to M phase. The pp60src […]