Please read the New York Times article from May 21, 2010: Researchers say they created a âsynthetic cell,â by Nicholas Wade. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html
Then, think about what you would do if you were going to engineer a new type of bacterial cell, with a genome that you could assemble from bits and pieces of other organismsâ genomes. What problems could you solve?
NOTE: This is a thought experiment only; you donât need to do hours of Internet research to answer these questions.
1.If you were going to create a bacterial cell from scratch, what product/function/process would you want it to carry out? Why do you think this is an important process?
2.You know that DNA codes for RNA, and (most) RNAs code for proteins, and that (for the most part) proteins carry out the important functions of the cell. For your âsynthetic cell,â where would you get the genes that would enable you to target your synthetic bacteria to the process you described in #1?
Please read the New York Times article from May 21, 2010: Researchers say they created a âsynthetic cell,â by Nicholas Wade. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html
Then, think about what you would do if you were going to engineer a new type of bacterial cell, with a genome that you could assemble from bits and pieces of other organismsâ genomes. What problems could you solve?
NOTE: This is a thought experiment only; you donât need to do hours of Internet research to answer these questions.
1.If you were going to create a bacterial cell from scratch, what product/function/process would you want it to carry out? Why do you think this is an important process?
2.You know that DNA codes for RNA, and (most) RNAs code for proteins, and that (for the most part) proteins carry out the important functions of the cell. For your âsynthetic cell,â where would you get the genes that would enable you to target your synthetic bacteria to the process you described in #1?
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