Month: May 2012

I’ll upload some of the animations we used in class, hope this helps you revising. I will update this post with a direct link to the page hosting the animations once I am done uploading them.  

Click on the image to see a larger version. Leave your suggested answer in the comments, I will review it and give you corrective feed-back.   Solution: a ) The frequency of homozygotes for the morbid allele is 0.0025 Let p be the frequency of the normal allele (N), 0<p<1 Let q be the frequency …

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I will be posting some exercises and animations in a password protected page. I will send you the password to your emails.

1. Insulin release is triggered by the rise in glycemia level above 1.2 g/L. The graph shows that a rise in glycemia is followed by an increase in insulinemia which suggests a cause-effect relationship between the two. 2. Insulin is a protein that would be digested by digestive proteases if administered orally. 3. Experiment A: …

Read More “Answers to probing questions – activity 4”

OK guys, sorry for the delay. I will start working on the remaining papers as of now 11 44 pm Abed Hout First Question part a: 2/2 part b: 1 out of 2 (you added some acquired knowledge into the mix, you can’t do that when you are asked to deduce ya man) part c: …

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First question -part a : 2 points out of 2. part b: 2 points out of 2. part c: 2 points out of 3. (there is no hormone by the name of adrelanine, Ahmad!) part d: 2 out of 2. You did well in this first question. Second question part a: 3 points out of …

Read More “Glycemia test grades and remarks”

ok, the kids went to bed just now (11:47 pm), I will start correcting, expect the first grades in an hour or so.