Create a patient scenario but don’t give away the disease. First explain the terms opportunistic and true pathogen. Also differentiate between syndrome, signs and symptoms of disease so everyone will have an idea of what needs to be presented for diagnosis. Here are a list of some bacterial diseases, you can […]

It seems like everything causes cancer these days and that we hear more about it – although most types are trending downward; especially those for which we have early detection or a vaccine. While the overall cancer rate is trending downward, that is not true of all cancer types (like […]

I identify a gene in plants and then use BLAST to search for related genes in GenBank. In my BLAST search, I find a gene with a very low Expectation value (E value) in animals. What does this result suggest? A. widespread presence of pseudogenesB. DNA transposon hopppingC. nothing, a […]

Question: A type of arachnodactyly is an autosomal dominant disorder associated with a gene on chromosome 5.Sickle cell anemia is due to a gene on chromosom. A man and a woman, each with arachnodactyly and who each had an unaffected parent, are carriers for sickle cell anemia. a. Give the […]