Uncategorized

Assignment: “DNA and RNA, Genes, Mutations, and Gene Therapies” Note: Online students, please respond to one of the following four bulleted items. • Examine three differences between DNA and RNA then explain two main reasons why DNA is the most favorable molecule for genetic material. Next suggest how RNA compares […]

Provided the rising rates of hypercholesterolemia and hypertension in the U.S. and other industrialized nations, you are interested in studying the importance of cholesterol transport in the sodium re-absorptive pathways in the kidney that are important for blood pressure control. One way to study this pathway is to use a […]

Q1. Presume that a father and mother are both heterozygous for the allele for sickle cell anemia (Ss). The following Punnett square shows the inheritance of the sickle cell and SRY genes, with X representing the X chromosome with no SRY gene and Y representative the Y chromosome which does […]

Q1. Assume that an enzyme requires an active site Cys thiol group to be in the unprotonated form (thiolate anion, R-S-) to act as a nucleophile in its chemical mechanism. If the pKa of that specific thiol is 8.3, what percent of all the enzyme molecules will have their Cys […]