Q1. A friend tells you she has swollen lymph nodes on the left side of her neck. You notice that a bandage is covering a large, infected cut on her left cheek. Accurately what are her “swollen glands” and how have they become swollen? Q2. Albinism, lack of pigmentation in […]

1. A new enzyme you are studying has a Km of 7.0mM and a kcat of 126 per second. What will be the initial rate of reaction in units mM/min when 9.3 nanometer enzyme is reacted with 2.7 mM substrate. Report your answer in units if mM/min to nearest 1mM/min? […]

In humans, there is a gene that controls formation of muscles in the tongue that allow people with those muscles to roll their tongues, while people who lack those muscles cannot roll their tongues. The ability to roll one’s tongue is dominant over non-rolling. The ability to taste certain substances […]

In your search for mutants of “your favorite gene” (yfg) youidentify a mutant which you believe to be a transposon insertion. At your disposal you havea point mutant of yfg. How can you distinguish this potential yfg transposondisruption from a nontransposon mutation? Which cloning vectors are best suited for the […]