Questions
Is lactose a reducing sugar? To answer this, first draw lactose, then label the anomeric carbons...

Is lactose a reducing sugar? To answer this, first draw lactose, then label the anomeric carbons on each monomer and determine if lactose is a reducing/non-reducing sugar.

b) Is Sucrose a reducing sugar? Answer this similar to the question above however (no need to draw structures like above)

In: Biology

One thousand bases of quail mitochondrial DNA were downloaded to Geneious from the GenBank database. PCR...

  1. One thousand bases of quail mitochondrial DNA were downloaded to Geneious from the GenBank database. PCR primers were designed to amplify a conserved region from this sequence. Each primer was 20 bases long, and the 5` end of the forward primer (F) and reverse primer (R) starts from base position 33 and 865, respectively. A PCR master mixture for 23 reactions to analyse different bird samples was prepared.                            
    1. Fill in the necessary information for the master mix in the following table

No of reactions to make up

23

Vol of each Reaction (µL)

24 µL +1 µL DNA

Total Volume Required

_____µL total

Component

Supplied as

Final Conc inPCR

µL required

1rxn       23

MgCl2

rxn’s

MgCl2

25 mM

2.5 mM

Polymerase buffer

5x

1x

Primer forward (F)

10 µM

1 µM

Primer Reverse (R)

10 µM

1 µM

Taq DNA polymerase

1Units/µL

1 U per rxn

dNTPs

25 mM

1 mM

Template DNA added later

-

-

Water

-

-

Total volume

25 µL

In: Biology

What is hydrogenation? Why do food manufacturers utilize this process and what are the potential health...

What is hydrogenation? Why do food manufacturers utilize this process and what are the potential health impacts of hydrogenation?

The quality of dietary protein differs among various sources, and provide an example of a high-quality protein and a low-quality protein in your response.

In: Biology

What is Erectile Dysfunction?

What is Erectile Dysfunction?

In: Biology

1a)With aid of diagram describe the central dogma of molecular biology in detail.(20 marks) 2)Describe the...

1a)With aid of diagram describe the central dogma of molecular biology in detail.
2)Describe the general relationship between DNA,RNA and protein

In: Biology

Fermentation can enhance or alter nutritive and health-modulating properties of food constituents. T F Justify: The...

Fermentation can enhance or alter nutritive and health-modulating properties of food constituents. T F

Justify:

The only mechanism microbes use to cause food spoilage is related to the growth of these microbes and their active metabolism of food components T F   

Justify:

People are not a major source of microbial contamination in the processing environment

T F Justify:

Molds are important for recycling dead plant and animal remains in nature they do not attack a wide variety of foods and other materials useful to humans. T F Jusify

indications of microbial food spoilage vary with the microbe(s) involved and the time course of spoilage. T F

Justify:

In: Biology

Jose and Jorge were identical twins separated at birth. Jose grew up in a large family...

Jose and Jorge were identical twins separated at birth. Jose grew up in a large family in an impoverished slum in the middle of a crime-ridden and polluted district of a major city. Jorge grew up in an upper-middle-class professional family with one other brother in a sub­ urban community in the same city. Despite the fact the Jose and Jorge were identical twins, their lives and health could not have been more different.

Jose had few opportunities for medical care or public health services as a child. His nutrition was always marginal and he developed several severe cases of diarrhea before he was 1 year of age. He received a polio vaccine as part of a community vaccination program, but never received vaccinations for measles, mumps, rubella, or other childhood illnesses. At age 4, he developed measles and was so sick his mother was sure he would not make it.

As a child, Jose also developed asthma, which seemed to worsen when he played outdoors on hot smoggy days. Dropping out of school at age 14, Jose went to work in a factory, but quit when he found himself panting for breath at the end of the day.

As a teenager, Jose was repeatedly exposed to crime and drugs. Once, he was caught in the cross fire of gangs fighting for control of drugs in his com­munity. Experimenting with drugs with his teenage friends, Jose contracted HIV from use of contam­inated needles. Jose did not know he had HIV until he was nearly 30 years old and developed tuberculosis (TB). He did receive treatment for the TB free of charge from the health department, but once he felt better, he did not follow up with treatment.

By the time the TB returned, Jose had lost 30 pounds and could barely make it into the emer­ gency room of the public hospital because of his shortness of breath. He was hospitalized for the last 2 months of his life, mostly to prevent others from being exposed to what was now drug-resistant tuberculosis. No one ever knew how many people Jose exposed to HIV orTB.

Jorge's life as a child was far less eventful. He received "well child" care from an early age. His fam­ily hardly noticed that he rarely developed diarrhea and had few sick days from diseases of childhood. He did well in school, but like Jose, he developed asthma. With good treatment, Jorge was able to play on sports teams, at least until he began to smoke cigarettes at age 14.

Jorge soon began to gain weight, and by the time he graduated from college, he was rapidly becoming obese. In his 20s, he developed high blood pressure, and in his 30s he had early signs of diabetes. Jorge had a heart attack in his mid-40s and underwent bypass surgery a few years later. The treatments for diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol worked well and Jorge was able to lead a productive professional life into his 40s.

By the time that Jorge turned 50, his diabetes began to worsen and he developed progressive kid­ ney disease. Jorge soon needed twice-a-week dial­ ysis, which kept him alive as he awaited a kidney transplant.

1.How do social determinants of health contrib­ ute to the different disease patterns of Jose and Jorge?

2.How do factors in the physical environment explain differences in the health of Jose and Jorge?

3.What role does medical care play in the differ­ ences between the health outcomes of Jose and Jorge?

4.What roles do public health services play in the health outcomes of Jose and Jorge?

In: Biology

compare dsDNA to ssDNA and dsRNA to ssRNA and DNA to RNA

compare dsDNA to ssDNA and dsRNA to ssRNA and DNA to RNA

In: Biology

Explain ways in which systems biology can be used to predict the toxicity of drugs? How...

Explain ways in which systems biology can be used to predict the toxicity of drugs?

How can system biology approaches be used to identify how host-microbial interactions cause disease?

Please answer both questions

In: Biology

3.1 Discuss the similarities and differences between MHC's and HLA's. Describe the roles of the three...

3.1 Discuss the similarities and differences between MHC's and HLA's. Describe the roles of the three MHC classes.

3.2 Describe antigen processing .How does the process differ from endogenous and exogenous antiges? ( 20 marks)

In: Biology

The sequence of an estrogen-responsive element is given below. What would you be the most likely...

The sequence of an estrogen-responsive element is given below.

What would you be the most likely consequence of the introduction of this sequence of about 200 bases upstream (-200) of the gene transcirption initiation site encoding the enzyme mucosa?

5' - TGGTCAGGCTGGCT-3

In: Biology

1.      tRNA aminoacylation a.      What is aminoacylation? Where on the tRNA does it occur? b.      Why...

1.      tRNA aminoacylation

a.      What is aminoacylation? Where on the tRNA does it occur?

b.      Why is ATP required for aminoacylation? Why is the hydrolysis of PPi generated during aminoacylation important?

c.       What is the significance of the high-transfer potential of the ester bond created during tRNA aminoacylation?

d.      Why is the specificity of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases important? How do these enzymes ensure their specificity?

e.      Are you familiar enough with amino acid side chains to answer questions about aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase specificity? (e.g. how might similar amino acids like valine, serine and threonine be distinguished?)

f.        Do you understand why there are differences in amino acid recognition between activation and editing sites? And how those differences dictate the specificity of the two different activities?

In: Biology

What do you envision for the structure of estrogen receptor receptor-bound estradiol?

What do you envision for the structure of estrogen receptor receptor-bound estradiol?

In: Biology

1. An occurrence of a gene made larger by trinucleotide repeats is: Allelic expansion Nucleotide expansion...

1. An occurrence of a gene made larger by trinucleotide repeats is:

Allelic expansion

Nucleotide expansion

Translocation mutation

Transformation

2. a chemical that can damage and/or change DNA is called a/an:

Allele

Endonuclease

Vector

Mutagen

3. An occurrence when a section of a chromosome relocates itself to an entirely different (non-homologous) chromosome is called a/an:

Inversion mutation

Translocation mutation

Transformation mutation

Duplication mutation

4. The tandem repeat in the sequence GGGAAGGGAAGGGAAGGGAAGGGAAG is:

GGA

GGGAA

GGAAG

GGAAGGG

A disease characterized by abnormally shaped hemoglobin is called:

Cystic Fibrosis

Sickle Cell Anemia

Marfan Syndrome

Leukemia

5. A point mutation that causes a substitution of a stop codon with an amino acid and leads to the formation of a longer protein is a:

Nonsense mutation

Missense mutation

Sense mutation

Frameshift mutation

6. Addition or deletion of nucleotides in a DNA sequence is known as a:

Nonsense mutation

Missense mutation

Sense mutation

Frameshift mutation

7. The least severe type of chromosomal mutation is:

Point

Frameshift

Inversion

Translocation

8. Chemicals inserting themselves into DNA can cause a:

Missense mutation

Nonsense mutation

Sense mutation

Frameshift mutation

9. A genetic condition caused by allelic expansion is:

Familial hypercholesterolemia

Fragile X syndrome

Alkaptonuria

Galactosemia

10. Which of the following is most likely the original DNA strand if the mutated DNA strand is ATAGUUGATGUA ?

ATAGAAGATGAA

ATAGCCGATGCA

ATAGGGGATGGA

ATAGTTGATGTA

11. An unbalanced chromosomal mutation would include a/an:

duplication (insertion)

inversion

translocation

denaturation

12. Many translocation mutations are found to be involved with:

cancers

sickle cell anemia

Huntington disease

cystic fibrosis

13. A common repeat throughout the human genome that is approximately 300 bases in length is called a/an:

EcoRI repeat

Hind repeat

Exo repeat

Alu repeat

14. A balanced chromosomal mutation includes:

imprintation

denaturation

inversion

deletion

In: Biology

Outline and explain the lytic and lysogenic cycles. please use correct terminology in describing the steps.

Outline and explain the lytic and lysogenic cycles. please use correct terminology in describing the steps.

In: Biology