A scientist is attempting to create a treatment for asthma. She knows that in people with asthma, their airways can become inflamed, or swollen, making it difficult to breathe. She knows that there are many genes responsible for this inflammation. She asks her team for ideas on how to treat asthma. You think RNA interference would work. Explain to her what RNA interference would do and the effect it would have on a patient with asthma.

Which would be the outcome in a fertilized egg if the process of meiosis did not occur? twice as many chromosomes as the parents half as many chromosomes as the parents same number of chromosomes as the parents triple the number of chromosomes as the parents?

The tasmanian devil, a marsupial carnivore, is facing extinction due to devil facial tumor disease (dftd) which causes bulging cancerous lumps and lesions to erupt around the face and neck — often causing enough deformation to make seeing or eating difficult. dftd has evolved into a contagious cancer, a trait that is unique among cancers. devil mating behavior involves biting around the head and neck, allowing cells from one individual — especially cells from the crumbly dftd tumors — to be transferred to the wounds or face of a new individual. this marsupial was once found across australia, but sea levels rose, isolating the tasmanian population, while the australian population went extinct. what would be an outcome of genetic isolation that is likely to have impacted the spread of dftd? a) reduced territory puts diseased individuals in greater contact with non-diseased ones. b) inbreeding results in less variation in facial features so the cancer is generally fatal. c) genetic isolation has made it difficult for scientists to develop a vaccine against dftd. d) the lack of genetic variation in the immune system of tasmanian devils minimizes resistance to the disease.

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