Another thermophile, thermus aquaticus, was isolated from a hot spring in yellowstone national park. it is the source of the enzyme taq polymerase, which is used in the molecular technique called polymerase chain reaction (pcr). pcr is used to amplify sequences of dna. what extremophile characteristic of this enzyme makes it an essential component in a pcr reaction?

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a serious condition caused by a recessive allele of a gene on the human x chromosome. the patients have muscles that weaken over time because they have absent or decreased dystrophin, a muscle protein. they rarely live past their twenties. how likely is it for a woman to have this condition? a) women can never have this condition. b) one-fourth of the daughters of an affected man would have this condition. c) one-half of the daughters of an affected father and a carrier mother could have this condition. d) only if a woman is xxx could she have this condition.