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 […]

A biologist studying a population of birds comprised of some individuals with long-tailed and some short-tailed individuals. She is interested in whether a population of birds is randomly mating or if the birds are preferentially mating with their own tail type. In this species tail length is controlled by a […]