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changed. The article also provided graphs to compare each experiments and their results. The last resource is about the genes of planarians. The article is about why planarians have the ability to heal. They conducted an experiment pertaining to their RNA to see how they work. Also, they looked at their tissue on how they react with different scenarios of amputating and stages of healing. This is interesting because their healing ability could be a result of the future medicine. The article…

Coronavirus comes from the family of coronaviridae, they are pathogens found in birds and mammals. Coronaviruses is a positive sense RNA virus and it was classified into four genera: Alphacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus, Gammacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus. There are many human types of the virus, for example, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV. SARS-CoV is a Severe acute respiratory syndrome. The Severe acute respiratory was found in 2003 when it first hit China and caused a big outbreak. Studies have shown…

Introduction Cat scratch disease is an infection caused by the bacterium Bartonella henselae. As the name of the disease implies, it is associated with a scratch from an infected cat but is also transmitted through a cat bite and, in some instances, cat fleas (Forbes, 2007). The formation of a papule at the site of the bite or scratch is the initial symptom followed by lymphadenopathy. One of the most common causes of chronic lymphadenopathy in children and adolescents is cat scratch disease…

sequences of virus DNA. The Cas9 part is a linked nuclease that is aided by a guide RNA, used to cut DNA. The CRISPR/Cas9 system is an immune response in bacteria that works when a virus, releases its genetic code into the bacteria. The virus DNA is stored in the bacteria DNA, so that it can specifically attack that virus, where it to invade again. When the virus attacks the bacteria again, its DNA is detected through an RNA base pairing method. It then bonds together with the Cas9 enzyme, to…

expressed in a given sample. While the RNA from the unaffected individuals produces the expected product, the diagram shows an abnormal product of 489 bp in the samples that were affected by HGPS due to the activation of the cryptic splice site. A western blot, a procedure used to identify specific amino acid sequences in proteins, was performed (section d) using an antibody against lamin A/C. This was conducted to determine whether the mutant messenger RNA was actually translated into a…

dampened by two snippets of RNA, a sister molecule of DNA that essentially is silence the gene” (ScienceDaily). One of the researchers mentions the way claudin-14 works as a filtering system by allowing minerals in the blood to pass through the kidneys and absorbed again back into the bloodstream which they are sent to cells and help function out everyday lives. When bad dieting such as consuming high amounts of salt and calcium without large quantities of water, the small RNA molecules allow an…

1. Name the six steps that are required to actually have a “Jurassic Park”. (6 points) 1. Find dinosaur DNA 2. Grow an embryo 3. Raise the baby 4. Choose a habitat 5. Plan a diet 6. Manage the animals 2. What was used to freeze amber to crack it open and access the insects? (1 point) Liquid nitrogen 3. Who was able to get bone marrow from fossils that have blood cells of dinosaurs in them? (1 point) John R. Horner 4. What are body cells called? (Not mentioned in video.) (2 points)…

Ricki Lewis’s The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It tells the tale of gene therapy’s rocky road from a wild idea people considered to be a “daydream” to a growing field providing lucky individuals with treatment to prevent their life-shattering genetic diseases. In her novel, Lewis discusses two major biological concepts: mutation and gene expression. To give the reader the molecular basis for genetic disorders, mutation is briefly addressed. Lewis gives two different examples…

Rett syndrome is when gene “…MeCP2, a protein that dims the activity of many genes in nerve cells that influence synapse formation or function. The Absence of MeCP2 causes dendrites, tree-like structures on neurons that receive incoming messages, to contain fewer spines, or spots for synapses to grow. The synapses that do develop do not function normally” (Bilimoria). Affecting mostly females this syndrome causes the connections to be extremely weak. Rett syndrome causes slow growth, loss of…

Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids are large biological molecules that play a major role in relation to the structure and function in plants and animals. These organic molecules consist of many examples and functions. Each biological molecule has a unique function and emergent properties that helps contribute to the cellular structure in both plants and animals. These biological molecules are known as macromolecules because they are large and are composed of thousands of atoms.…