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Diffusion across cell membranes
I got this question and don't really understand the difference between the answers.
Diffusion is (in cell membrane):
a) passive by nature, no metabolic energy is needed
b) driven process by ...
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Recent and good quality articles on systems biology [closed]
I'm a biotechnology student and I have to write a sort of non-experimental thesis (30 pages long) within the end of a three years study.
I'm very interested in the "systems biology" field and I'm ...
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Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium: To compute probability of finding two siblings (random mating)
I've been working a little with M. G. Bulmer's Principles of Statistics (Dover, 1979) and cannot see how to properly compute half of one question. This should be a basic probability computation, but I ...
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Two brown-haired people have two children, P and Q. P has blond hair. Q has brown hair. What is the probability that Q is heterozygous?
Two brown-haired people have two children, P and Q. P has blond hair. We therefore believe that each parent is heterozygous and that blond hair is a recessive trait.
Q has brown hair. What is the ...
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How to classify equilibrium points [closed]
I have the two differential equations:
$$\frac{dN_1}{dt} = N_1(2 - N_1 - 2N_2)$$
$$\frac{dN_2}{dt} = N_2(3 - N_2 - 3N_1).$$
I worked out the equilibrium points to be at $N_1 = 0, \frac{4}{5}$ and ...
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Deterministic model of lambda-phage lysis/lysogeny [MATLAB]
Project 1 Base:
Can someone please help me understand what I need from Project 1 Base code to do questions 1 and 2 from the first image? I'm new to MATLAB so a thorough explanation would be ...
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Analysis of cDNA samples from brain with suspected measles inclusion body encephalitis
I have been given the following question as an assignment but I am not sure what exactly the results mean:
You have been given brain biopsies from 5 patients with suspected measles inclusion body ...
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Number of reading frames in nucleotide sequence
In class of molecular biology was posed this question:
"How many reading frames start in sequence of nucleotides 5' ... ATATGAATGATGACAT... 3' ?"
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Polymerase Observations
DNA polymerase I (PolI) contains polymerase, 3'-5' exonuclease, and 5'-3' exonuclease activities in a single polypeptide chain of molecular weight 109 kDa. If E. coli Pol I is exposed to the protease ...
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How does Topoisomerase II inhibition affect cancer cells?
Topoisomerase II poisons represent some of the most important and
widely prescribed anticancer drugs currently in clinical use. These
drugs encompass a diverse group of natural and synthetic ...
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Does this patient have HHV6 or HCMV after transplant surgery?
I have been given mock results from a PCR test on blood samples taken from kidney recipient patients and their donors. The PCR reaction can detect single copies of viral DNA. I have been asked to ...
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Parsimony (cladistics)
I don't understand how to sum the changes in a phylogenetic tree.
Here for example: http://www.med.nyu.edu/rcr/rcr/course/phylo-cladistic.html
How do you end up with 8 for the first and 9 for the ...
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Bradford Protein Assay [closed]
Please would somebody help me to solve the following exercise:
Determine the protein concentrations of the four unknown samples (A,B,C,D) using the raw data obtained from a Bradford assay.
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Will climate change affect flower population?
There is a flower population elevated 1000 meters above sea level. If climate change causes a 12 degree C increase in temperature over the next 10 years, what will happen to the flowers?
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What causes tree lines?
There is an area of where there is a distinct line of only trees on one side and only shrubs on the other (right next to each other). What could cause this?
My attempt: I said there could be a ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using beta-galactosidase compared to luciferase as a reporter gene?
In the University labs, we have used Beta-galactosidase as a reporter gene to quantify the expression initiated by the stress-response promoter in yeast. This was done by exposing one of the two ...
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What range of dose should be used?
This is a dose-response experiment testing a new cancer drug. the darker line represents cancer cells. what range of dose should be used? I think it's 2-4 because this affects cancer cells only. is ...
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How could a pure culture be represented by more than one ssu rRNA sequence?
Your lab works on an organism isolated from radioactive waste. However, you show that 3 very similar, but not quite identical, ssu-rRNA sequences can be amplified from the culture even though it is ...
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What is the purpose of measuring both VS (volatile solid) and TS (total solid)?
In the biogas process you often measure Volatile solid and Total solids. Can any one explain these concepts more accurately and why it is interesting to look at these properties.
The biogas process ...
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At what substrate concentration will an enzyme work at 40% of its maximum rate if its Km = 0.095M?
The question involves the Michaelis-Menten kinetics equation.
Here is what I did: I took the Michaelis-Menten equation, replaced v with 0.4Vmax, canceled the Vmaxes (one on each side), and solved ...
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Similarities Between Cells?
Which of the following are usually identical between a lung cell and a brain cell, from the same person, assuming that they are normal (non-cancerous) cells? Circle your choice(s).
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Translate DNA to Protein
Assuming the sequence shown is read left to right, what is the sequence of the protein produced?
sequence: 5’-ATGTACTTCCATCTGGAATAG-3’
MY ATTEMPT: I know RNA is synthesized 5 to 3. This is ...
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Which cells will pass cancer to offspring?
Each of these types below contains a DNA mutation. Which type(s) will affect the children of the individual whose cell it is.
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Which enzyme catalyzes transcription and which translation?
My attempt:
Transcription - RNA polymerase
Translation - aminoacyl tRNA synthetase
I know that the ribosome almost runs translation, but I don't think ribosomes are enzymes, which is why I went ...
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How do trees use Adhesion and Cohesion to move water against gravity?
I have an AP Bio class where I have to name 3 properties of water and I chose adhesion and cohesion for one of them. I'm having trouble finding out how exactly trees use adhesion and cohesion to move ...
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Are there any organisms with larva more advanced than adult form?
Usually adult organisms are more sophisticated than corresponding larva, i. e. frogs, mosquitoes, fish. Are there species where the opposite is true?
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Are Bovine serum albumin, Avidin, Ficoll-70 and Dextran-70 positively charged or negatively charged?
Bovine serum albumin, Avidin, Ficoll-70 and Dextran-70,are they
positively charged or negatively charged ? And which other solvents can be used as a substitute to water for preparing solutions in each ...
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How to manufacture different sized micelles in nano -scale?
I am trying to answer q5:
"How can you manufacture micelles in A) nanometerer -scale B) and in ten nanometer -scale?"
My Thinking
Observations and some thinking
Oil in ...
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What happens to colloidal particles in a liquid medium? And how to stabilize it?
Definition
Colloid is a dispresion of small particles of one material in another.
Definition 2 (Wikipedia)
A colloidal system consists of two separate phases: a ...
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How many pandemic H1N1 2009 virus sequences were submitted by the Indian NIV as of May 10, 2010? [closed]
The handout I was following is maddening. It says; "Go to the NCBI home page and select 'All Resources (A-Z)' and choose GenBank. Follow the NCBI Flu Resource link to determine how many pandemic H1N1 ...
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Restriction Mapping of Plasmid Assignment
pUWL22 is a circular, double stranded, 10.5 kb plasmid. It contains a
gene encoding an enzyme that confers ampicillin resistance in the host
bacterium. Cloning into the kpn I and Sst I sites ...
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Determine which gene is in the middle complementation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Crossing mutant strains on minimal media problem
I'm studying this problem for my genetics final:
My Attempt: The answer for part B is met2 and the answer for part C ...
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DNA chip contains a complete set of random hexanucleotide (6-mers) probes? (Solve) [closed]
can you tell me how to find solution to this question
A DNA chip contains a complete set of random hexanucleotide (6-mers)
probes. Out of the 4^6 = 4096 probes, how many will form perfect
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How to find Dmax (genetics problem) [closed]
My attempt: I'm not sure this is right but this is what i did. I found the allele frequencies to be:
A=0.4
B-0.3
a=0.1
b=0.2
I think to find Dmax I just multiply the two alleles with the larges ...
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Finding DNA from Amino Acid sequence problem
My attempt: First I took the single letter AA codes and made them amino acids. So, the first one is Trp which is 5'-UGG-3'. From this I got the DNA sequence 3'-CCA-5'. However, the correct ...
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Finding exons in DNA problem
My attempt: I looked for the TACs because I thought this would be AUG in mRNA and ultimately Methionine (the start codon). But apparently, that's not how you do this problem. Im confused because ...
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Mouse meta-globin mRNA problem
This is an mRNA strand of mouse meta-globin:
5'-ccccagauacggaauucgaau-3'
A) Which small RNA (below) is most likely to regulate expression of
meta-globin?
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Effect of histidine on the binding affinity of HisP
I was asked the following question by my teacher:
A gene regulatory protein called HisP regulates the enzymes for
histidine biosynthesis in the bacterium E. Coli. HisP is a protein
whoes ...
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How do fibers control muscles?
My professor says
Nervus troclearis IV somatomotor fibers supply musculus obliquus superior.
and similarly for nervus oculomotorius III
Nervus oculomotorius postganglionic fibers supply ...
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Difference between biological control and introducing species for conservation?
I have a biology assignment and we have to explain various methods and strategies for conservation, two of which are:
Biological control
Introduced Species
What is the difference between ...
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Is Aspergillus clavatus an unicellular organism?
I could not find the piece of information form Burton Human Parasitology -book and not by Google.
Yeast is divided to two phylums: one of them is Ascomycota.
Aspergillus clavatus belong to the given ...
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What are all possible vectors for unicellular human parasites?
I got the given question. They want the following pieces of information about protozoological human parasites:
disease - parasite - vector.
There are 10 proteogenic diseases at the Wikipedia. I ...
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Predicting progeny of recessive mutations using recombination
I was asked this question on a test and got it wrong, but I'd like to know how to do it. The answers are shown in the blanks below:
You are studying two recessive mutations in the fruit fly D.
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Pedigree Probability of Autosomal Recessive Trait
Here is a pedigree:
The trait is autosomal recessive.
The question is: What is the probability that the bottom 2 people (4 and 5) have a child with the trait?
I tried doing ...
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Genetic carrier Pedigree of Recessive Traits
A human male and female couple with normal colored ears discover that, in both of their families, their fathers (who have normal ears) each had siblings with red ears. Red ears is a rare autosomal ...
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Does chicken embryo form the disc called “discoblast” in the cleavage and blastulation of chicken?
This thread is related to my previous thread which is still unsolved mainly. I need to be able to compare chick and human cleavage and blastulation of zygote.
My friend says that
Chicken have ...
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Is secondary follicle or Graafian follicle arrested in the second metaphase of oogenesis?
My note about which I am not sure:
Secondary oocyte is arrested in the metaphase II monthly after puberty until fertilization with sperm.
The following picture also satisfies my sentence: .
So ...
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What forms the human amniotic sac?
I am trying to understand the formation of embryonic disc for human and chick so the following question is related to here about formation of embryonic disc.
I had thought that the amniotic sac forms ...
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What is the structure and function of chromosomes during interphase?
Ok, it seems to be easy but I have probably ignored something by accident.
Interphase is the phase where things are growing and the preparation for cell division happens. Its stages G1, S and G2. DNA ...
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What is the main general difference between Mitosis and Meiosis?
I found such a clause:
The general principle is that mitosis creates somatic cells and
meiosis creates germ cells.
However, I cannot agree. Each gametogonium needs to go through mitosis before ...
