In Drosophila the brown eye mutant allele (bw) is autosomal and is recessive to the wild type allele (bw+). True breeding wild type flies are crossed to true breeding brown eyed flies. a) What is the genotype and the phenotype of the F1 flies? b) If the F1 flies are […]

In this week’s lesson, you had the opportunity to review Dr. Patricia Kuhl’s video on language acquisition. After reviewing the Linguistic Genius of Babies video by Dr. Patricia Kuhl (found in the Unit 2 reading), respond to the following: Summarize Dr. Kuhl’s brain research and its influence on language development […]

In schedule you must test the raw milk coming from provider B this incoming week. Your intention is to test the quality of the raw milk. Part of the company standard is to reject raw milk with total bacterial counts over 6 x 104 CFU/ml. Explain how you will proceed […]

A pH profile shows that the pH optimum for an enzyme is from pH5 to pH9. Assuming that the pKas for the side chains of the amino acids are unaltered from their normal values, propose an amino acid which must be in a deprotonated state for the enzyme to be […]