BSC 215 Spring 2014- Exam 2 Required Reading and Study Guide. The ‘required reading’ sections below include material that will be covered on exam 2. Here is an effective way to approach your required reading: BEFORE EACH CLASS: Read the assigned text for the chapter that is listed in the “required reading” Sections below. For this first read‚ it is not necessary that you attempt to understand everything in the required reading. It is more important that you read for the “big picture” concepts
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5a. Dracunculus medinensis‚ commonly known as the Guinea worm‚ is a human parasite. It enters the body through water fleas‚ but when the fleas reach the digestive tract‚ the fleas are killed and the worm larvae are not. Over the course of about a year‚ the larvae grow and develop into full-fledged worms carrying thousands of new larvae. The worms travel to the skin and expel acid to burn their way out. The burning sensation causes human hosts to feel the urge for cold water to ease the pain. However
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Page 1 Analysis of transcriptional regulation of the arabinose operon promoter using expression from a green fluorescent protein encoding reporter gene + + KIRA FERNANDEZ ‚ CLAIRE MARKEY * ‚ JESSE PIERATTI + Department of Biological Sciences ‚ and Department of Nutrition and Dietetics*‚ Messiah College‚ Mechanicsburg‚ PA 17055 Page 2 ABSTRACT This study investigates gene regulation and how environmental arabinose and/or glucose can interact with geno
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similarity is that‚ in both cell types‚ BMP is a key inhibitor regulatory of TICs from glioblastomas. On the other hand‚ a difference is that TICs undergo genetic aberrations that are similar to tumors‚ which in turn give rise to the typical tumor phenotype [1]. What still remains unknown is during which point in the developmental process in tissues do TICs form and also what are the intrinsic cell signaling pathways that are disrupted in TICs. To answer this‚ they looked into the potential aberrant
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Anthropology Science of human cultural and biological variation and evolution Study of human biological and cultural difference across space and time Anthropos: man (Greek) Logos: word (Greek) Naming: building a knowledge off “Study of Man” Human Diversity/Differences Rigorous explanation of being human appreciation of many things Overlap with other fields Economics: accumulate wealth v. giving away wealth Different perspectives Biological and Cultural Differences Important
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MODULE 2: GENETICS‚ VARIATION AND NATURAL SELECTION SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES & EXPLANATORY NOTES 1. Structure and Roles of Nucleic Acids 1.1 illustrate the structure of RNA and DNA using simple labelled diagrams; The genetic substance found in all organisms called DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid is a kind of nucleic acid. Nucleic acids consist of two long polymers of simpler units‚ called nucleotides; that are composed of three (3) main units as shown below: 1) A pentose sugar (deoxyribose
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of bacterial genomes‚ ORFeomes and proteomes‚ we are therefore at the brink of having a complete ’part catalog’ of many organisms. Based on that observation‚ they predicted our ability to understand the complex relationship between genotype and phenotype will be limited "not by the data‚ but by our tools to analyze and interpret this data." Finally‚ they proposed a bioinformatics pipeline to automatically generate metabolic flux models from an annotated genome‚ arguing that a rigorous constraint-based
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hybrid seed production‚ the crosses are specific and controlled. The advantage of growing hybrid seed compared to inbred lines comes from heterocyst. To produce hybrid seed‚ elite inbred varieties are crossed with well-documented and consistent phenotypes (such as yield) and the resulting hybrid seed is collected. Another factor that is important in hybrid seed production is the combining ability of the parent plants. Although two elite inbred parent plant varieties may produce the
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Observance of Artificial Selection: Technical Study of Wisconsin Fast Plants 5th and 6th period AP Biology Due: 12/16/13 Abstract This experiment was used to explore the Theory of Evolution created by Charles Darwin. The use of natural selection was apparent in the artificial modification of an organism ’s traits which aided in this investigation. Through this experiment the Wisconsin Fast Plant was used. It is a fast-growing organism developed to improve the resistance to disease in
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Dr. Brown conducted three distinctive experiments in order to understand how an individual’s immunological phenotype is the result of its genotype‚ the environment‚ and development. For the first experiment‚ Dr. Brown’s research was testing how selection on basal and maximal metabolic rates affect immune function. In addition‚ Dr. Brown had four hypotheses for this particular experiment‚ two were for basal metabolic rate and two were for maximal metabolic rate. Moreover‚ trade-off with BMR decreases
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