This is an awesome question, it’s not very often I get to listen to music for an answer! First, I’d be remiss (as an educator, student, and answer-er person) if I didn’t provide at least a basic definition of metonymy and (lyrical) paradox. Metonymy is a figure of speech where […]

1) One of Mendel’s key discoveries is:a) there are alternate versions of genes called alleles b) a diploid organism has two alleles of each genec) there are dominant and recessive allelesd) Law of Segregatione) all of the above2) In pea plant flowers, purple (P) is completely dominant to white (p). […]

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. […]

Question 1) In a family with familial breast cancer, a BRCA1 mutation has been identified in the index case, a women of 51 years old with breast cancer. Her daughter of 27 is not affected, but is willing to take predictive testing. As a clinical geneticist, what would you certainly […]