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1. In August, 2014 there was an Ebola epidemic in Africa. Two Americans doctors contracted the disease while doing mission work. They were transported back to the U.S. and treated at Emory hospital in Atlanta, GA. At the heart of this debate is whether they should have been brought back […]

Q1. 1. A student inherits a recessive phenotype of a particular characteristic. Though, both the parents are phenotypically dominant for the characteristic. Give details. 2. Individuals with a certain heterozygous characteristics are usually called a carrier. What does a carrier mean? 3. What factor determines whether particular phenotype occurs more […]

Q1. The ATP/ADP ratio in the actively respiring yeast cell is about 10. What must the intracellular 3-phosphoglycerate/1, 3-diphosphoglycerate ratio be to make the phosphoglycerate kinase reaction thermodynamically favourable in the direction of 1, 3-diphosphoglycerate synthesis? Q2. There is another digestive enzyme other than salivary amylast that is secreted by […]

Does the company producing ATryn in goats need to include a promoter in the vector they use to insert the transgene into goat cells? If yes, explain why and what type of promoter they would use. If no, explain why this isn’t necessary in this specific case. Is this not […]