ENZYMES ARE HIGHLY SPECIFIC Enzymes are highly specific both in the reaction catalyzed and in their choice of reactants, which are called substrales. An enzyme usually cata- lyzes a single chemical reaction or a set of closely related reactions. Side

Welcome to the course, which is an introduction to cultural or sociocultural anthropology We will have two lectures and one discussion a week Most of the requirements (a final exam, series of six papers adding up to about twenty pages; at least an hour a week of discussion)is set by the MIT Humanities Distribution system

A reference frame consists(1)a coordinate system and(2)a set of synchronized clocks distributed throughout the coordinate grid and rest with respect to it

Chapter 8 British Holidays and festivals Time Allocation: 2 periods Focal Points: Christmas. Christian trinity. Easter and Halloween . Introduction Holiday is a day set apart for religious ob'servance or for the commemoration of some extraordinary event or distinguished person, or for some other public occasion Holidays are characterized by a partial or total cessation of work and normal

Quiz #1: October 29 Open book, 85 minutes (start 10: 30) Chapter 4 coverage: Sections 4.1through 4.7 (inclusive); Section 4.9 (skim through 4.9.4) Review Problem Set 3 Review some old quizzes

Univariate versus Multivariate Analysis Univariate analysis Solely interested in an isolated characteristic of a set of objects, irrespective of other variable characteristics possessed by the objects Examples the study of the achievement test scores of students X the salaries of workers

Restriction enzymes are extensively used in molecular biology. Below are the recognition sites of two of these enzymes, BamHI and Bcll. a)BamHI, cleaves after the first G: 5'GGATCC 3 3 CCTAGG5 Does cleavage by BamHI result in a 5' or 3 overhang? What is the sequence of this overhang?

Question 1 You have two pure-breeding colony of mice. Colony I mice have black fur and long tails, Colony II mice have golden fur and short tails You cross mice from each of these colonies

A female geneticist has difficulty characterizing flies by their eye color because she herself is red-green colorblind(an X-linked recessive phenotype). She has one sister(colorblind) and one brother(not colorblind)

The hematopoietic system of mammals is a convenient model to use to study development and differentiation. The bone marrow transplantation experiment discussed in lecture indicates that stem cells are more than a figment of some biologist's fertile imagination