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Fred and Ethel have normally pigmented skin but they have a child who is an albino. They are carriers of a recessive trait = heterozygotes.  STOP – READ THAT LAST SENTENCE AGAIN – YOU ARE GOING TO NEED IT TO ANSWER THE SECOND QUESTION. Use A or a for alleles. […]

Elegans with the mutation sma-2 results in a mutant phenotype characterized  by small body size. You place a hermaphrodite that is homozygous for sma-2 and a hermaphrodite that is homozygous wile-type (+) on a single plate.  Monohybrid Crosses: Crosses in which one pair of alleles is involved.  C &sans with […]

You are the healthcare administrator for a cardiology practice. The cardiologists implant into certain patients, a device that is called a “left ventricular assist device: (LVAD); a mechanical device that assists the left ventricle to pump as much blood as possible into the rest of the body. A LVAD is […]

In order to help you remember the different types of macromolecules and their general structure and function, I would like you to create 2 different types of analogies for each type of macromolecule (a total of 8 analogies). 1) Create an analogy for the structure of the macromolecule (i.e. show […]