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What was this technology and why would it have an impact on population growth?
explain how the shape of a red blood cell in a person with sickle cell disease can affect how much oxygen gets reaches their muscles
A patient Marina, 27 years old, was diagnosed with cancer of the right breast with metastases in the lymph nodes (stage II). Marina told the doctor that her sister had osteogenic sarcoma for 17 years, and her brother had acute leukemia at the age of 5 years. Marina's mother died of breast cancer several years ago. Marina's estrogen level is within normal limits. It was taken Marina’s blood for the study of leukocyte DNA.
Questions for discussion:
1. What is the possible cause of tumor development?
2. What type of apoptosis failure leads to breast cancer and other cancers?
3. What type of mutation is the most likely for Marina?
a) mutation of the bcl-2 gene
b) mutation of the bcl-x gene
c) mutation of the p53 gene
d) mutation of the gene encoding the epidermal growth factor receptor
e) mutation of the transforming growth factor gene
4. Find the localization of this gene using the OMIM database.
5. What apoptosis genes are under impact of transcription factor p53?
Plant and animal cells carry out mitosis to form two genetically identical cells from one original cell. Other reasons why mitosis is important in both plants and animals?
Is cutting field a biotic or abiotic factor?
. A bacterium having a genome size of 3.6 million base pairs would yield a replicon of how many base pairs and why
describe the cAMP/PKA pathway?
What does Crude sap undergo in the soil called
From the marriage of a deaf-mute woman with a normal man, a deaf-mute child was born. Determine the genotype of the parents.
Myoplegia (periodic paralysis) is inherited as a dominant feature. Determine the likelihood of having children with anomalies, where the father is heterozygous and the mother does not suffer from myoplegia?
