Chapter 9
Biology: A Guide to the Natural World · 3 exercises
Problem 1
Why is it accurate to think of each human being as the owner of a library of ancient information?
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Problem 2
People who are born with the condition called Down syndrome generally have three copies of a certain chromosome (chromosome 21), rather than the usual two copies. What can you deduce from this regarding the proteins produced by a person with Down syndrome?
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Problem 3
The tools of computer science are today being applied to the genomes of living things thanks to the happy coincidence that the information in both computers and genomes exists in digital form. In computers, digital information is expressed as a series of 0 's and 1 's. What is the digital form that a genome's information comes in?
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