Tracker Jackers In the book by Suzanne Collins and the movie, “The Hunger Games”, tracker jackers are wasps genetically engineered to 1.Track their victims 2.Inject a venom that attacks the fear center of the brain and acts as a hallucinogen l  How would you genetically engineer a tracker jacker? 1. […]

Q. In Loch Ness Monsters, personalities are hereditarily encoded and can either be shy or outgoing. For another genetically encoded trait their eyes can be either blue or red. A true breeding blue eyed nessie who was also true breeding shy mated with a true breeding red eyed nester who […]

What is the Central Dogma? Which of the steps in information flow within the cell involves translation from one “language” to another? Which involves the transcription of information? If the “cooking” analogy is accurate (i.e., a gene is like a pie recipe and the protein coded for by the gene […]

A single nucleotide addition followed by a second alteration in the DNA causes the following amino acid sequence -His-Thr-Glu-Asp-Trp-Leu-His-Gln-Asp-to change to -His-Asp-Arg-Gly-Leu-Ala-Thr-Ser-Asp- a.What are the old and new mRNA nucleotide sequences? Try to eliminate as many ambiguities in the nucleotide sequence as you can and be sure to show all […]