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What are some of the risks involved in therapeutic cloning?

Part 1: Directions: Explore the attached article and videos.  Answer the associated questions with a few short sentences.  Each question is worth 1 point unless otherwise noted for a total of 35 points.   Please submit under the “journals” tab under the heading “DNA: Gene therapy and cloning”. DNA : Gene therapy and cloning Directions: Explore the attached […]

Structure and Functions of Organs

Structure and Functions of Organs   Identify an organism that lives within 50 miles of your home.   Write an at least 1,050-word research paper about how the organism has adapted to survive in their specific environment. Include the following points in your paper: Briefly describe the environment (temperature, landscape, food sources, etc.) and describe the organism’s […]

What is the central dogma of biology?

1. What is the central dogma of biology?  This is part which provided the general framework for how genetic information flows from DNA sequence to a protein product inside cells.                                  a                      b             _____________ à ____________ à ____________________               The arrows indicate what processes?   a)             […]

Lyme Disease

Question 1 Lyme Disease Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected blacklegged ticks. I took my General Biology class on a field trip at the end of the spring semester in late April to Cattus Island County Park in Toms River, New Jersey. […]