Describe a discovery that influenced the development of biotechnology made BEFORE Watson, Crick, Franklin and Wilkins discovered the chemical structure of DNA in 1953.Briefly describe the importance of the discovery and how it might have informed the thinking of Watson, Crick, Franklin and Wilkins as they made their own discovery.

Q: Research has now demonstrated that techniques that have been developed for cloning animals could be…

A: Introduction: Therapeutic cloning is also referred to as somatic cell nuclear transfer or SCNT. It…

Q: Short tandem repeats (STR) profiling is based on O A. the fact that many foods are being genetically…

A: The method of DNA profiling used today is based on PCR and uses simple sequences or short tandem…

Q: Briefly outline the history of our knowledge of the structure of DNA until the time of Watson and…

A: Deoxyribonucleotide is a double helical structure composed of two coiled polynucleotide strands that…

Q: Suppose you had funding to do a genome-wide gene expression experiment (20,000 genes).  You can use…

A: Gene expression analysis involves determining if a specific gene is being expressed under specific…

Q: Drawbacks of biotechnology in bullets point.

A: Biotechnology is the branch of biology that aims at developing products useful for mankind by using…

Q: In biotechnology, an organism modified by gene splicing method is called Which of the following…

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Q: Suppose researchers learn that a particular congenital disease is caused by synthesis of a protein…

A: Recombinant DNA technology brings the the gene from multiple sources together and place it in the…

Q: Forty years after its development, the use of recombinant DNA technology is widespread and is found…

A: The technique that deals with the incorporation of a foreign or desired DNA fragment into another…

Q: In a clinical context, doctors are evaluating a therapy for a new patient (say patient B) that they…

A: In the setting of assessing treatment for a modern patient (patient B) who may develop comparable…

Q: The student sets up the assay and analyzes the presence of the oncogene in normal and tumor issue…

A: •Cancer cells have more genetic changes than normal cells. •Genetic changes that lead to cancer…

Q: A gene from the bacteria Bocillus thuringiensis has been inserted into the genome of select corn…

A: Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a soil-borne bacteria that occurs naturally. This bacteria synthesize…

Q: A molecular biologist wants to isolate a gene from a scorpion that encodes the deadly toxin found in…

A: A gene is a stretch of nucleotides present on a chromosome. It is the region that encodes the…

Q: Bioinformatics can a. assist genomics and proteomics. b. compare our genome to that of a monkey. c.…

A: To understand the intricate details of biological data, various methods and software tools were…

Q: A graduate student who has not taken BIOL 519 thinks they have discovered a new oncogene that could…

A: Cancer develops as a result of damaged genes. These damaged genes are frequently caused by…

Q: We have mRNA prepared from human cells but PCR needs DNA. What should we do?

A: A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technique that is used in molecular biology to amplify a…

Q: treat every genetically related health problem and to keep people alive at all cost. If this…

A: Each new genetic test conducted raises serious medical, public health, and social policy issues…

Q: Genetic engineering has been used in many different ways, such as  human growth hormone for the…

A: Biotechnology essentially deals with industrial scale production of biopharmaceuticals and other…

Q: Which of the following is TRUE of next generation sequencing technology? It is required for CHIP-seq…

A: Next generation sequencing (NGS) is a massively used sequencing technology that has revolutionized…

Q: Outline the steps by which the polymerase chainreaction (PCR) amplifies a specific region of a…

A: Polymerase chain reaction or PCR technique is used to amplify or make multiple copies of a specific…

Q: Give an example of a journal that is about genetic switches involving RNA molecules. Briefly…

A: Answer: "RNA Biology," a peer-reviewed scientific publication that covers all facets of RNA biology,…

Q: In the 1970s, scientists realized that there might be unforeseendangers and ethical issues with the…

A: None men are islands. This adage applies to ecological creatures as well. No living thing survives…

Q: In the 1970s, scientists realized that there might be unforeseendangers and ethical issues with the…

A: An ecosystem is made up of the interactions of various species in a specific geographical area.…

Q: As we described in class, in the early 1960's Francis Crick and colleagues set out to determine how…

A: Introduction  Genetic code   The sequence of bases that encodes a functional protein molecule is…

Q: In the 1970s, scientists realized that there may be unforeseen dangers and ethical issues with the…

A: The DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the hereditary material of an organism. The DNA is a part of the…

Q: Because genetic engineering involves the modification of an organism's set of instructions, it has…

A: * Genetic engineering means it is the process of using rDNA technology to alter the genes of…

Q: A genetics research group has determined the sequence of a rat gene thought to be involved in…

A: Genetic Engineering, like any other technique, is neither necessarily beneficial nor inherently…

Q: Briefly outline the history of our knowledge of the structure of DNA until the time of Watson and…

A: Watson and Crick were the ones who finally unfolded the structure of DNA molecule and for this…

Q: Molecular Biology is the Course RNAi is a commonly used lab technique to transiently reduce…

A: Biological origin:The RNAi system likely originated as a defense mechanism against viruses and…

Q: explain the methods of how we could clone wooly mammoths

A: Cloning is the process of producing genetically identical individuals either naturally or…

Q: The CRISPR system may be used to manipulate the genome in human cells, because Cas9 can

A: CRISPER system can use Cas protein to manipulate the genome present in human cell.

Q: Some people have argued that editing the genomes of human embryos is ethically defensible as long as…

A: Genome editing tools are those tools that help in making changes into the genome of an individual.…

Q: Genetic information has become part of our culture and it is difficult to tell the difference…

A: Introduction :- Genetics is a branch of biology that studies genes, genetic diversity, and heredity…

Q: The 6th and 7th women Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, Professors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle…

A: The genome is a cell's whole collection of DNA blueprints. The genome of human beings is made up of…