Dina Mirovich is a 40 year old woman with diabetes mellitus and lupus and recently had strep throat. She has severe edema and frothy, cola-colored urine, with low urine volume. She has difficulty breathing, with crackles in both lungs. She just finished a course of antibiotics for strep throat. She […]

Explain a specific example of a cross between two parents, each homozygous for different traits, which would result in a phenotype that is distinct from either parental phenotype. 1. Indicate the genotype and phenotype of each parent and the offspring. 2. Indicate the inheritance pattern of the character described. Rules: […]

1) Haemophilus influenzae requires hemin (X factor) to synthesize cytochromes and NAD (V factor) from other cells. For what does it use these two growth factors? What disease(s) does H. influenzae cause? 2) The bacterial enzyme streptokinase is used to digest fibrin (blood clots) in patients with atherosclerosis. Why doesn’t […]

Magoo Inheritance Note: You will be submitting your answers for this assignment using the quiz feature in Titanium. The best way to approach the assignment is to answer all the questions before opening the link to submit them. Magoos are a species of monsters that exhibit the same patterns of […]