What is the gene code for hemoglobin?

Which person type O, A, B, or AB is considered a universal donor, and which is a universal recipient? Explain your answer?

Why might the locations of introns and exons be the same in both alpha- and beta-hemoglobin genes?

What are BAC vectors?

The following are some well-known abbreviations, which have been used in this chapter. Expand each one to its full form:(a) MALT (b) CMI (c) AIDS (d) NACO (e) HIV

Why do red blood cells lack a nucleus? Why is this an advantage?

What is an Hfr cell? How does it differ from F-, F+, and F-? What is the definition of an exconjugant in relation to this?

Compare the segment of DNA for normal hemoglobin with the segment for sickle-cell hemoglobin below. Sickle-cell disease is caused by a mutation. Normal Sickle-cell hemoglobin DNA hemoglobin DNA ... GIAIICIA ... ... Normal hemoglobin Sickle-cell hemoglobin Normal red blood cells A sickled red blood cell substitution inversion deletion translocation

What is the cellular location of the MC1R protein?     nuclear     cytoplasmic     cell membrane     extracellular matrix

Explain why the gene for sickle cell anemia may be beneficial to humans at some point. Describe these conditions.