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Page 136 Fill in the blanks: The amount of time elapsed from when the Earth was formed until life began was about  _______ million years. Type just a number, no words. It took approximately _______ million years from the time the first life appeared until oxygen began accumulating in the atmosphere. Type just a number, no words. Which appeared on land first: plants or animals? _______ The _______ ruled the Earth during the Jurassic Period. Did dinosaurs and humans live during the same time period? Yes or no? _______

Page 135, # 5 Match each fossil type with its correct category.

Type numbers to fill in the blanks: The human genome contains less than _______ genes, that are translated into _______ different proteins.

Fill in the blanks: The cholesterol-fighting drug Lipitor, which is prescribed for patients with high cholesterol levels, works by inhibiting an enzyme needed for the body to manufacture cholesterol. Knowing the shape of the enzyme helped scientists discover what drug might be able to serve as an inhibitor of that enzyme. This illustrates how proteomics can be useful in developing new drugs for the treatment of disease, since enzymes are proteins, and, as the textbook states: “Drugs tend to be _______ , or small molecules that affect the _______ of _______ .”

The human genome contains about   _______ genes. (Type just a number; no words.) Cells use the two-step process of _______  followed by  _______ to read each gene and produce the string of _______ that makes up a  _______ . Transcription happens in the _______ , when the cell’s machinery copies the gene sequence into _______ RNA. (Spell out the entire word.) In mRNA, the base _______ replaces thymine.

The pedigree chart on page 112 shows a family with a history of Huntington’s disease. If H = the Huntington’s gene, and h = the normal gene, then all of the family members whose symbols are not colored in do not have Huntington’s, and all of them would have the genotype _______ . All of the family members whose symbols are colored in do have Huntington’s, and all of them must have the genotype _______ .

The health insurance program for federal government employees is

Scholastic dishonesty is not tolerated. Examples of AI that are considered scholastic dishonesty include…

Where can you find and submit all assignments in this course?

Third-party logistics providers (3PL):