Assume that you are responsible for decontaminating materials in a large hospital.
How would you sterilize each of the following? Briefly justify your answers.

a. a mattress used by a patient with bubonic plague
b. intravenous glucose-saline solutions
c. used disposable syringes
d. tissues taken from patients

This is normally accomplished through methylation of a cytosine:

a. paternal effect   b. imprinting   c. epistasis   d. maternal inheritance   e. aromatase

Describe what it means for interactions to be selfish by using the concepts of actor and recipient.

A mountain climber ascends to an altitude where the partial pressure of oxygen in the atmosphere is very low.

1. What happens to levels of erythropoietin in the blood after a period of time at high elevations?

2.How does a low concentration of oxygen in the alveoli affect the state of contraction of pulmonary arterioles?

3.Explain why pulmonary edema is a symptom of altitude sickness

Using your knowledge of cellular respiration, provide a detailed accounting of the ATP produced. Be sure to include the exact contribution of the electron carrier molecules NADH and FADH2 and how this relates to ATP production.

1. Microscope Question: What type of microscopy would you use for each situation situation and why and how does it work

1. Routine examination of cheek cells in a classroom setting
2. Tracking the localization of a transgenic protein from DNA transformed into the cell.
3. Examining and generating 3D images of very small ultrastructures of cells
4. Examining a specimen that is visible to an ordinary light microscope but in a specimen that is transparent without staining
5. You wish to internally observe a complex living mass of cells without any physical dissection.
6. For confocal microscopy describe the different components light interacts with from laser to detector.

How could you show that the adaptor protein AP2 has a phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) binding domain?

In like a simple-ish explanation please.

1. Describe how to perform a melt curve? In your test results, what did the melt curve tell you about the PCR reaction?

2. What are the CQ values of each of our patient samples?

3. Which patient has the highest viral load?

4. Name 3 factors to consider when designing pairs of primers to be used for a PCR reaction.

State 3 assumptions made in stage-structured population growth models and explain why a conservation biologist who is in charge of managing an endangered plant population needs to be aware of each assumption before applying model outcomes to management plants.

You find that the polarity of microtubules in the alternate universe cilia is the opposite of the polarity of the microtubules in cilia from your body. Describe the arrangement of the microtubules of these alternate universe cilia. Also, describe possible steps for the process of intraflagellar transport in these alternate universe cilia.

Please describe in cancer research what the limitations of sequencing whole genomes are. What is the goal of sequencing and the challenge of sequencing? What tools can be used to increase the effectiveness of sequencing? Do you agree/disagree with the following statement and why: It will be discovered that cancer is a disease that is caused by disruptions in a small number of molecular pathways?

Identify one aspect of translation that is present in Bacteria but absent in Eukarya: Group of answer choices :

rRNA in the large subunit of the ribosome plays a catalytic role

The elongation stage is sensitive to the presence of diphtheria toxin

The genetic code consists of 64 unique 3-nucleotide codons

A peptide bond forms between the amino acid of one amino-acylated tRNA and a peptide on the other tRNA

An tRNA carrying methionine is recruited to the ribosome to form the initiation complex

The small subunit rRNA molecule anneals to the Shine-Dalgarno sequence on the mRNA

Compare the pros and cons of asexual and sexual reproduction, and describe each mode of reproduction, giving specific examples based on living organisms. The details of description should be concise and informative and should be less than 500 words.

(a) Give a brief overview of the theory of evolution, and explain why it is the principle of unifying concept in biology. The length of the overview should be less than 500 words. (b) Apply the theory of natural selection to any given adaptation, and suggest a logical explanation of how the adaptation may have evolved.