Free Response Question 2 (6 pts) (NOTE: You do NOT need to k…

Free Response Question 2 (6 pts) (NOTE: You do NOT need to know anything specific about amylase for this Central Dogma problem.) When you eat lots of starch, your pancreas makes amylase, an enzyme that breaks it down. You do NOT make amylase in most other parts of your body.   Using the terms below, explain how the pancreas “turns on” the production of amylase. (Using similar terms, such as “translated” instead of “translation,” does count for credit!) (6 pts) DNA Protein RNA Transcription factor Transcription Translation For up to 1 point extra credit: Would our pancreas cells need to remove introns, exons, or neither during this process? Explain briefly. HINT: This is primarily a Central Dogma question. The answer applies to the Central Dogma in general, not enzymes in particular!

(NOTE: You do NOT need to know anything specific about GFP b…

(NOTE: You do NOT need to know anything specific about GFP beyond what I say here.) (Note: Using similar forms of a word, such as “translated” instead of “translation,” does count for credit here!) To track the migration of muscle cells, a lab makes a transgenic mouse line. These mice contain a transgene for green fluorescent protein, GFP, which comes from jellyfish. GFP glows under UV light. However, when this transgene is expressed, only their muscle cells glow. Explain that result using the following terms correctly: (6 pts) transcription transcription factor translation DNA protein RNA For up to 1 point extra credit: Would the mouse’s cells need to remove introns, exons, or neither during this process? Explain briefly. HINT: This is primarily a Central Dogma question! Most of the answer is about the Central Dogma in general, not GFP in particular.