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Part 1: Directions: Explore the attached article and videos. Answer the associated questions with a few short sentences. Please submit under the “journals” tab under the heading “DNA: Gene therapy and cloning”. DNA : Gene therapy and cloning Picture courtesy of http://img.timeinc.net/time/2001/stemcells/images/stemcells.jpg What are the ethical issues surrounding the stem […]

A population of mice can have either black (B) or white (b) fur and long (L) or short (l) tails. The population has the following haplotype distribution:B/L – 120; B/l – 30; b/L – 80; b/l – 20If this is the gamete pool for the parental generation, what is the […]

The result of mitosis is that daughter cells end up with similar number of chromosomes just as the parent cell. This is attained by chromosome duplication followed by the cell division. Let an alternative, hypothetical process, where the cells underwent the cell division first and then chromosomes get duplicated in […]

Q1. Imagine the diameter of the field of vision in your microscope is 2 millimetres under low power. If one Bacillus cell is 2 micrometers, how several Bacillus cells could fit end to end across the field? How many 10 micrometer yeast cells could fit across the field? Q2. In […]