Youâve just taken a new job as a nutritional consultant at a large company. You propose to modify rice seeds so it produces Omega-3 fatty acids, which are nutritionally important. Your boss is an intelligent individual who understands the types of biomolecules but has never had biochemistry and wants to know how adding a piece of DNA to a plant can change its characteristics.
Explain to your boss how the structure of DNA allows it to encode information and how this information is used by a cell to change the characteristics of the cell. Excellent answers will do the following. 1) Relate the structure of DNA to information storage. 2 and 3) Describe the main function of the two major molecular machines (enzymes or complexes) involved in the processes needed to use the information in DNA and to the production of proteins. and how information in DNA determines the function of the final product of these processes. 6) Explain the general steps of making a this Omega-3-containing rice (what do you need? How do you get it?) 7) Explain what Omega 3 fatty acids are and why they are important
Youâve just taken a new job as a nutritional consultant at a large company. You propose to modify rice seeds so it produces Omega-3 fatty acids, which are nutritionally important. Your boss is an intelligent individual who understands the types of biomolecules but has never had biochemistry and wants to know how adding a piece of DNA to a plant can change its characteristics.
Explain to your boss how the structure of DNA allows it to encode information and how this information is used by a cell to change the characteristics of the cell. Excellent answers will do the following. 1) Relate the structure of DNA to information storage. 2 and 3) Describe the main function of the two major molecular machines (enzymes or complexes) involved in the processes needed to use the information in DNA and to the production of proteins. and how information in DNA determines the function of the final product of these processes. 6) Explain the general steps of making a this Omega-3-containing rice (what do you need? How do you get it?) 7) Explain what Omega 3 fatty acids are and why they are important
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