By understanding DNA and gene expression, humans have been able to understand how genetic diseases are caused, therefore they have been able to devise gene therapy and other technologies to treat such disease. Second, the understanding has also allowed humans to devise plants that are resistant to pests and drought hence increasing crop yields.
A negative aspect of this understanding is the issue of bioterrorism. In the wrong hands, this technology can be used against society. The technology can be used to modify organisms to make them deliberately harmful to humans. Second is the issue of bioethics. This technology can be used to enhance humans and result to an ‘arms race’ between human races that can tear down the social fabric.
<span>mRNA: UACAUGGCCUUACGCUAA
tRNA: AUG UAC CGG AAU GCG AUU
a.a: Tyrosine, Methionine, Alanine, Leucine, and Arginine
DNA has 4 different bases, they are Adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and Thymine (T). RNA also has 4 bases with three of them being identical to the DNA bases and Thymine being replaced with Uracil (U). These bases are generally represented by the 1st letter of their names. Each of the bases will join with a complementary base, so A always pairs with T or U, and C will pair with G. So to create the mRNA, simply replace every A with a U, every C with a G, every G with a C, and finally, every T with a A. So
mRNA: UACAUGGCCUUACGCUAA
Now for tRNA, there's a slight twist. It only comes in 3 base codons, You won't find a sequence of tRNA other than in 3 base codons. And each of those codons will be uniquely paired with an amino acid. In the ribosomes, the mRNA will be sequentially scanned 3 bases at a time allowing for a matching tRNA sequence to bind to the exposed 3 bases, this will cause the next amino acid to be bound into the protein being constructed. So split the mRNA into 3 base sequences and calculate the complement to get the tRNA. A simple shortcut is to look at the original DNA sequence and simply replace a T bases with U. So
tRNA: AUG UAC CGG AAU GCG AUU
Notice the spaces every 3rd base. THIS IS REQUIRED. These is no continuous length of tRNA. You'll only find it in 3 base lengths and each of them will be bound with an amino acid.
For the amino acid that's coded to the RNA, you'll need to use a lookup table in your text book, or one you can find online. Then it's a simple matter of matching each 3 base sequence to the amino acid. For the sequence given we have:
AUG - Tyrosine
UAC - Methionine
CGG - Alanine
AAU - Leucine
GCG - Arginine
AUU - STOP
Notice the AUU doesn't decode to a specific amino acid. It instead indicates to the ribosome to stop the production of the protein. So the amino acid sequence for the originally given DNA sequence is:
Tyrosine, Methionine, Alanine, Leucine, and Arginine.</span>
Answer:
C) Flush out the contaminants with an excessive amount of water.
Explanation:
Water is universal solvent. It dissolve many solutes inside it. Soil is contaminated with number of chemicals which is used by farmers for the controlling of pathogens. These chemicals remains on the soil for very long time. These chemicals are removed from the soil by applying high amount of water which flush out the chemicals from the soil.
Answer: Exponential growth occurs when resources in the environment are abundantly available to a species.
Explanation: When a food source amount drops, so does the survival rate of the predator that eats that specific food source. When a food source grows too abundantly at too fast a rate, predators increase in numbers.
Answer:
1,000 kcal
Explanation:
As a general rule, every trophic level only gains 10% of the energy from the trophic level.
So, the grass has 100,000 kcal of energy. Assuming the bird eats grass, it only gets 10,000 kcal of energy. Assuming the fox eats the bird, it only gains 1,000 kcal of energy.
