Gene therapy is an integral part of genome projects. it includes the correction of abnormal genes responsible for diseases. which of these is an application of gene therapy? a) the removal of cells with abnormal genes from the body by surgical methods. b) designing drugs to inhibit the function of a protein coded by an abnormal gene. c) the introduction of a new gene that can bind with the abnormal gene to inhibit its action. d) the inhibition of all the genes associated with the abnormal gene to regulate their actions.

Describe the function of the endomembrane system? what organelles are involved?

The kidney filters potentially toxic substances in the blood, and thus “clears” the blood of those substances. this clearance function is dependent upon and proportional to the diffusion gradient of the substance across filtering capillaries, i. e. if the concentration of the substance is doubled, twice as much will be cleared from each ml of blood that is filtered. suppose that the body produces a constant amount of a substance x per unit of time. the kidneys eliminate substance x at a rate directly proportional to the concentration of the substance and the volume of blood cleared each minute (c): elimination = c × [x], where [x] is the steady-state concentration of substance x. imagine an individual with an initial concentration of x equal to [x]0 who develops kidney disease. her baseline clearance c0 drops to one half of the original (½c0). what is the new steady state concentration of x? (for simplicity, assume that substance x is 100% filtered by the kidney).

2. does the given statement describe a step in the transformation of the graph off(x) = x2 that would result in the graph of g(x) = -5x + 2)? a. the parent function is reflected across the x-axis. o yes nob. the parent function is stretched by a factor of 5. yes noonc. the parent function is translated 2 units up. o yes