Tracker Jackers In the book by Suzanne Collins and the movie, “The Hunger Games”, tracker jackers are wasps genetically engineered to 1.Track their victims 2.Inject a venom that attacks the fear center of the brain and acts as a hallucinogen l  How would you genetically engineer a tracker jacker? 1. […]

This is an awesome question, it’s not very often I get to listen to music for an answer! First, I’d be remiss (as an educator, student, and answer-er person) if I didn’t provide at least a basic definition of metonymy and (lyrical) paradox. Metonymy is a figure of speech where […]

What is the Central Dogma? Which of the steps in information flow within the cell involves translation from one “language” to another? Which involves the transcription of information? If the “cooking” analogy is accurate (i.e., a gene is like a pie recipe and the protein coded for by the gene […]

A single nucleotide addition followed by a second alteration in the DNA causes the following amino acid sequence -His-Thr-Glu-Asp-Trp-Leu-His-Gln-Asp-to change to -His-Asp-Arg-Gly-Leu-Ala-Thr-Ser-Asp- a.What are the old and new mRNA nucleotide sequences? Try to eliminate as many ambiguities in the nucleotide sequence as you can and be sure to show all […]