In April 1990, the El Paso County (Colorado) Health Department recognized an outbreak of drug-resistant gonorrhea in Colorado Springs. 56 cases of penicillin- resistant Neisseria gonorrheae occurred from December 1989 through March 1991. To gather information about the outbreak, 410 persons related through a densely connected set of social or sexual associations were interviewed. What can public health workers tell individuals in this network to stop the spread of Gonorrhea in this population? a) Preventive treatment with penicillin will prevent Gonorrhea infection in individuals not already infected.
b) Only individuals with symptoms should seek medical screening since all cases of Gonorrhea are associated with symptoms.
c) Condoms will not prevent the spread of Gonorrhea. Gonorrhea can spread from an infected mother to a fetus.
d) Gonorrhea is more prevalent in individuals 24 years and older.

Considering the yellow and green pea color phenotypes studied by gregor mendel: a. what is the biochemical function of the protein that is specified by the gene responsible for the pea color phenotype? (1 point) b. a null allele of a gene is an allele that does not specify (or encode) any of the biochemical function that the gene normally provides (in other words, either no protein at all or only non-functional protein is produced from it). of the two alleles, y and y, which is more likely to be a null allele? (1 point) c. in terms of the underlying biochemistry, why is the y allele dominant to the y allele? (2 points) d. why are peas that are yy homozygotes green? (1 point) e. the amount of protein produced from a gene is roughly proportional to the number of functional copies of the gene carried by a cell or individual. what do the phenotypes of yy homozygotes, yy heterozygotes, and yy homozygotes tell us about the amount of sgr enzyme needed to produce a yellow color? explain your reasoning. (2 points)