You have received an opportunity to work with a professor. He wants you to induce a tumor in a model organism to study its effect. What model organism will you choose to study?   Drosophila melanogaster   Mus musculus   Caenorhabditis elegans   Cercopithecidae

The figure below shows the life cycle of the fungus Neurospora. The adult stage of the Neurospora is a multicellular haploid: a. Between which two stages of the Neurospora life cycle do most mitotic cell divisions occur?  b. Neurospora has an arginine amino acid synthesis pathway shown below: Suppose I have a neurospora strain that has a mutation such that it will not grow unless I supplement the media (food) with arginine (but not with citrulline or ornithine). What gene is mutated? Explain your reasoning.  c.  Suppose I take the strain above that only grows with arginine supplements and cross it to a different mutant Neurospora strain that grows with arginine and citrulline supplements but not ornithine supplements. Assming genes A, B and C are unlinked and there is only one mutation per strain: i) What percentage of the progeny will grow on ornithine? ii) What percentage on citrulline? iii) What percentage on arginine? Show your work for i), ii) and iii). [Can be answered in less…

Discuss how ultra violet light works as a mutagen. This could include: What is UV light and the Mutations commonly introduced by UV light? What are the Repair mechanisms in yeast that fix damage caused by UV light? Describe the phenotypes of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae plates, the first plate is the control yeast, while the second plate has been exposed to low UV light, the third plate has been exposed to high UV light. Normal yeast has round smooth white colonies. Are there any signinifcant differences?

What is the function of Drosophila melanogaster RNA polymerase II in the cell