Phenotype

characterized by variable and reversible airflow obstruction. The symptoms of asthma include shortness of breath, cough, chest tightness and wheezing. Genetic factors are thought to play an important role in the development of the disease, however the phenotype expression is profoundly affected by environmental factors1. Asthma affects 334 million people all over the world and is the most common chronic disease among children2. In the UK alone, 5.4 million people suffer from asthma of which 4.3…

teicoplanin 32μg / mL and medium with vancomycin 6μg / mL medium, respectively. Read the test results after 24 hours. The strains which can grow on both medium are defined as VanA phenotype VRE.While the strains which can not grow on teicoplanin-containing medium, but grows on vancomycin-containing medium are defined as VanB phenotype…

INTRODUCTION ` Human Sexual dimorphism as its basic element of identity is genetically determined and determines the natural path of social development and cultural heritage. Complementarity of the morphological phenotype characteristics and behavioral of the men and women is part of the genetic program of human nature-oriented implementation of the basic tasks to fulfill in life, which is to have offspring, which in turn is, related to its fertility. This consists of the ability to produce…

this process carries on until a stop codon is reached (OCR, 2008). The process whereby AA are bought and a peptide bond forms between them is called protein synthesis. The final protein that is made during protein synthesis causes the phenotype. The term phenotype refers to the observable characteristics of an individual e.g. eye colour, hair colour or shape of…

Introduction The process that different organisms use to develop and diversify from their ancestors is known as evolution, and Charles Darwin theorized that evolution is the result of natural selection. Natural selection is a theory that is focused around five main ideas. It begins with the idea of the variation that exists in a natural species. Variation can come from mutations in a species as well as from the crossing over between homologous chromosomes that occurs in sexual reproduction,…

Purpose: The purpose of this simulation is to demonstrate how alleles work and practice the skill of figuring out what genotype is dominate based off of the phenotype of the offsprings. Background info: Fruit flies or Drosophila melanogaster work best in experiments because Drosophila melanogaster has 60% of genes that are mutated, amplified, or deleted in human diseases. Drosophila melanogaster also has a short lifespan which makes them best for quick experiments. They also mate and develop…

identify your partners and as well as your own phenotype and genotype. We did that by deeply observing our bodies and then determining whether we have the following traits. PTC, Darwin’s ear point, ear lobe attachment, hitchhiker’s thumb, widow’s peak, second finger shorter than fourth, bent little finger, mid digital hair, red green color blindness, and tongue rolling. We then made punnet squares by showing all the possible genotype and phenotype outcomes. Apart from…

or a gene family by genetic editing to generate the mutant phenotype. As it is done in a direction from gene to phenotype, which is opposite to ‘forward genetics’, hence named as reverse genetics. As the whole genome sequences are much more accessible nowadays with various genome sequencing technologies developed. This enables modifying a known gene, and to create a known mutation. The mutated gene might then give a change in the phenotype. We can then link this phenotypic change back to the…

fully functioning and expressing proteins hence they do not share the same phenotype. This difference in phenotype is biological in nature and it may be due to the fact of the epigenetics in the womb effecting each twin’s final phenotype. Then of course, other environmental aspects could affect the phenotype of the twins. For instance, one twin could catch a virus, which leads to cancer, and further changes there phenotype from their identical twin. These epigenetic differences become acquired…

This week’s readings have to do with race and genetics in correlation with biomedicine. In Troy Duster’s Race and Reification in Science, he talked about the ability to use genomic knowledge and apply it to the pharmaceutical field. Anne Fausto-Sterling’s The Bare Bones of Race talked about, the racial difference in bone density and uses and definitions of race in medicine. Joan H. Fujimura, Troy Duster, and Ramya Rajagopalan’s collective piece, Special Issue on race, Genomics, and Biomedicine,…