Biology Assignment Approximately 700 million people do not have access to clean drinking water. The results affect all aspects of life in developing countries. According to Water.org, a child dies every 90 seconds from a water-related illness and women in some water stressed areas spend several hours every day collecting […]

Question: Scientists can use mutants to study metabolic pathways. These organisms have a mutation in a gene encoding a metabolic pathway enzyme that results in the inactivation of that enzyme. Saccharomyces cerevisiae (a yeast species) mutants are available that grow on fructose, but not glucose. Which of the following glycolytic enzymes […]

1) Bones vary in mechanical properties. Where on the range of mechanical properties for bone do you think this bone would fall? Address at least elastic modulus, yield stress, and yield or ultimate strain.2) What is a good cross-sectional shape for this bone? You should be as specific as you […]

The tickle syndrome (laughing in response to touch) and trembling ears (triggered by exposure to bright blue light) are both dominant traits in human beings. (a) What is the probability that the first child of parents who are heterozygous for both the tickle trait and the trembling ears trait will […]