Read the Controversy 8 – Osteoporosis: Can Lifestyle Choices Reduce the Risks? Take this osteoporosis risk survey below. http://www.yourdiseaserisk.wustl.edu/hccpquiz.pl?lang=english&func=home&quiz=osteoporosis What is your risk? At the end of the survey, click on “What Makes Up My Risk.” Tell which factors raised and lowered your risk. Read the section on Sodium and […]

Lesson 9- Human Genetics – Study Guide 1. Describe Gregor Mendel’s life and the experiments he conducted. 2. Identify the following as homozygous dominant, homozygous recessive or heterozygous:a. HHb. Hhc. Hh 3. Identify the potential gametes that can be produced by parents with the genotypes of HH and Hh. 4. […]

a gene regulatory protein, A, contains a typical nuclear localization signal but suprizingly is usually found in the cytosol. When the cell is exposed to hormones, protein A moves from the cytosol into the nucleus, where it turns on genes involved in cell division. When you purify protein A from […]

In drosophila the recessive autosomal bw causes brown eyes by blocking synthesis of the red pterin pigments and the recessive sex-linked ve causes bright red (vermillion) eyes by blocking synthesis of the brown xanthommatin pigment. Double mutant flies have white eyes, while wild type eyes are dark red color. -If […]