Liver Cirrhosis, primary sources The title is short and to the point and concisely conveys what the paper is about. -Reason why you think topic is important -Normal Physiology and Disease physiology -Effectively presents normal anatomy of the system chosen and encompasses all points covered in lecture and lab by […]

a. Analyze the DNA of the Phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene in a patient with phenylketonuria revealed a mutation in the protein coding region whose predicted effect would be to replace the amino acid aspartic acid, with histidine. Nevertheless, no mutant protein could be found in the patient’s cells. Briefly explain how this could happen. […]

You are investigating 4 recessive alleles in corn. They are whimpy ears (w), striped leaves (s), shriveled kernels (k), and red tassels (r). Their dominant counterparts are represented by the “+” symbol. A plant that is homozygous recessive for all four genes (ww ss kk rr) is crossed with a […]

Evolutionary Biology in the age of Genomics- Q1. Phylogenetic trees- You are analyzing sequences sampled from four turtle species (A-D), considering a genomic region that is 75 base pairs long. You observe the following table of the number of substitutions between pairs of species:   A B C D A […]