6 bodies are found buried
A group of 6 bodies are found buried in the forest: three males, a female and two children. The police suspect that they may be a missing family. They extract DNA from bones and examine the STRs from two genes A and B. The results are shown below, where the numbers indicate the number of copies of a tandem repeat in a particular allele; for example, male 3 has one allele with 8 and another allele with 9 copies of a tandem repeat in gene.
Oh Biology, how I love thee.
Deinococcus radiodurans is a tetrad-forming soil bacterium, characterized as apolyextromphile, with resistance to ionizing radiation by means of enzymatic genome repairs.
Ahhh.
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Lizzy on March 5th, 2009
Oh, I remember that question from Biol112!
Are you thinking of switching into Science now?
Eastwood on March 6th, 2009
I’m considering the IDST BA program with a focus in bio and health & society
Humaira on March 6th, 2009
Very nice!