True or False? Intermediates in the glycolysis pathway can be a source of raw material if the cell wants to construct biological molecules such as triglycerides or amino acids, but the citric acid cycle cannot be used this way.
Q: Which of these would be the index case for the Ebola epidemic?a. Nina Pham b. the baby in Guinea c. ...
A: A virus is a microscopic infectious agent that could infect and live only within the living organism...
Q: Describe how scientists predict the location of genes byidentifying sequences conserved in the genom...
A: Gene is a small stretch of nucleotides present in a DNA molecule. It encodes information for a prote...
Q: Describe FISH analysis and its application in findingspecific DNA sequences in a chromosome.
A: The study of the structure and function of the chromosome to understand the pattern of inheritance i...
Q: Explain what is meant by the term fermentation and howfermentation is used by natural biological sys...
A: Metabolism is the whole range of biochemical processes that occur within a living organism. It is us...
Q: Recently, scientists constructed a transgene that expresses a mutant form of Drosophila histone H3 i...
A: Histones are the alkaline proteins present in the nucleus of the eukaryotic cells. They remain bound...
Q: Explain how gene duplication and divergence lead tothe formation of gene families and pseudogenes
A: Gene duplication is defined as a process by which a region of a DNA which codes for a gene is copied...
Q: Drosophila geneticists have isolated many mutationsthat modify position-effect variegation. Dominant...
A: Mutation is defined as the permanent change or alterations happening in the sequence of the DNA of a...
Q: You cause a mutation on an enzyme found in DNA replication. You observe a mutation in the enzyme res...
A: The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the hereditary material that transmits the genetic information fr...
Q: Explain the origins of autoimmunity and describe which personsare most often targeted by it.
A: Autoimmunity is a mechanism in which the immune system produces proteins called autoantibodies to at...