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A triplet code on an antisense strand of DNA reads 3 GTT 5.  The codon of mRNA transcribed from this strand would read:

Suppose you have a C++ program called prog.cpp. To compile the program on a Unix system, you would use the command g++ prog.cpp This generates an executable file called . You can then run the program by typing . If you want to specify the name of the output file, you can use the -o flag, as follows:  g++ prog.cpp -o prog This will produce an executable file called For programs designed to run in parallel, you might include libraries such as for shared-memory parallelism or for parallelism. To compile a parallel program using OpenMP, you would use the -fopenmp flag and run the executable just like a serial program. For MPI-based programs, you compile using a specialized compiler wrapper, such as , and run the program across multiple processes using the command.

Questions 28-30 are based on the same pedigree. This pedigree traces the inheritance of a rare autosomal recessive disease. Individual I-2 is known to be homozygous. Assume that q = 1/50 for this mutant allele, and that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.     The chance of III-2 being affected is approximately

In a mixed-sex population in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, the frequency of colorblind females is 1%. Color-blindness is an X-linked recessive trait. Colorblind males in this population consist of:

This question and the previous one are based on the same information.In guinea pigs, black fur is an autosomal dominant trait, and white is the alternative recessive trait. A Hardy-Weinberg population of 400 guinea pigs was found to contain 64 white individuals.Consider ONLY the BLACK animals in this population. What PERCENTAGE of these animals is expected to be HETEROZYGOUS?

In this pedigree, a circle = female, and a square = male. Assume all individuals are homoplasmic, but people from different families have different DNAs.   How many different mitochondrial DNAs are present in this pedigree?

A gene locus has four alleles with frequencies of A1 (0.1), A2 (0.2), A3 (0.3) and A4 (0.4). What is the frequency of the A2A3 genotype in a population that is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?

Questions 28-30 are based on the same pedigree. This pedigree traces the inheritance of a rare autosomal recessive disease. Individual I-2 is known to be homozygous. Assume that q = 1/50 for this mutant allele, and that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.     The chance of II-5 being a carrier is approximately

In a small population of cockroaches living in your kitchen, only a few roaches mate in one year. This can lead to random changes in allele frequency in the population through

According to the endosymbiotic theory the ancestors of chloroplasts are