Mutant

CNN host, Fareed Zakaria, suggested that, “During the Cold War, we [Americans] were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war.” The Cold War refers to the tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1991. The two sides never confronted each other within battle. Americans, however, still lived in constant fear of communism and a war with Russia. A technique I learned earlier within this class was that our…

Earths aquatic life is unique and essential in almost every aspect of human’s day to day life. Our oceans provide mouth-watering foods; they give supplies for making hair products, and also aide meteorologist in predicting our weather from day-to-day. The magnificent oceans are home to more organisms and aquatic life than is fathomable. What if we did not have our oceans to keep us healthy? The vivacious lives that make our oceans so beautifully helpful are at great danger of depletion. ”Ocean…

For a story to be interesting and exciting, there has to be conflicts. It doesn't matter if it is a movie or a book, there has to be conflicts, and what these conflicts must have are the amazing and iconic villains. Without them, everything will be pointless, the story wouldn't be as exciting as it should be. They simply make everything better by making the audience hate them. If people hates a specific villain’s guts in the story, then that is such a good sign. Villains are even more…

The television shows of teenagers nowadays is such a broad spectrum ranging from anime to reality tv. Some shows are usually watched by both genders, like The Walking Dead and American Horror Story. Since I am a girl and enjoy watching drama I would assume that not that many guys watch drama. In these shows the most obvious example I can think about playing into gender roles would be anime. There are some animes that express all of the girls as having big boobs and long hair who are very skinny.…

What if blood were poison to the body? Imagine going through countless blood transfusions and bone marrow transplants. Many people are blessed never to have to worry about those things their entire lives, but that life is a reality for a person with sickle cell disease. Some compare sickle cell to cancer, but they are very different. Similarly both have severe effects on the body from the diseases themselves and from the strenuous treatment procedures. Through all the hardships sufferers, have…

Aspergillus nidulans: One of the lesser known pathogen of the aspergilli group, A. nidulans is a model filamentous fungus widely used for studying eukaryotic cell biology (Galagan et al., 2005). A. nidulans possesses a phospholipid-hydrolyzing novel cPLA2 protein, PlaA, which shows maximum similarity to mammalian-type cPLA2 proteins (α, β, γ) (Hong et al., 2005). Like the three isoforms of human cPLA2 proteins, A. nidulans PlaA also consists of two separate catalytic domainsA and B, and…

The fact that a people are afraid of the “contamination” of the wild types by the genetically modified ones is an example of this. Being genetically modified does not mean that they are mutants, or that the creators and growers does not have control over a possible cross breeding between the GE type and the wild type. Besides that, even though some problems with transgenic food have been reported in the past, in the present days the process…

This can bring about death of numerous individuals, and, Once the mutant qualities are out of the pack, there is no doing a reversal. Genetically adjusted living beings pollute existing seeds with their changed material, passing on altered qualities to non-target species. This makes another strain of plant that was never…

Gene deactivation is essentially gene suppression, which is another topic I learned in class. Gene suppression is described as a second gene blocking the mutant phenotype of the second gene. Through suppression, the phenotypic ratio of progeny resulting from a cross between two heterozygotes is altered from a 9:3:3:1 ratio that is generally expected. The example of such a cross provided in class allowed me…

The main objective of this paper by Ando et al. was to explore the nature of association between the protein MEF/ELF4 and the nucleophosmin, NPM1, along with its implications with regards to leukemogenesis; the mutant version of the latter has been commonly associated with leukemia. MEF/ELF4 is part of a family of transcriptional factors (ETS) responsible for numerous cellular functions, such as genomic stability, DNA repair, and most importantly, the regulation of cell proliferation,…