Reflection Prompts 1. What were your initial expectations about the Service Learning project in this class? Have these expectations changed? How? 2. What about your community involvement has been an eye-opening experience? 3. How has your understanding of the community changed as a result of your participation in this project? […]

Question 1: In Drosophila melanogaster, eyeless (ey) is a recessive trait in which the eyes are tiny or absent. The ey locus is found on chromosome 4. Monosomy and trisomy for this very small chromosome are compatible with survival and fertility. A trisomic wild-type male with the genotype ey+ ey […]

1. A bacterial cell uptakes and incorporates exogenous DNA; this results in development of new features within this cell. Name the process. 2. You stain bacterial cells with crystal violet and then counterstain with safranin or carbol fuchsin. This allows you to find the groupsyour bacteria belong to. Name these groups. 3. This […]

Point mutations are generally caused by a change in the single nucleotide, either by deletion, insertion or base change, in the DNA or RNA material; this is a change in the genetic material structure, the organism that is affected by the point mutation is known as appoint mutant, that is […]