Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
A Living, Programmable Menstrual Health Diagnostic Cup I’ve always been in awe of looking at the intricate patterns of the biological world through a mathematical lens. It makes me pause for a moment—wondering how evolution has managed to create systems that are so exquisitely ordered, yet profoundly chaotic at the same time. Finding patterns in this overwhelming biological diversity makes me think like an engineer: trying to understand the rules underneath, and—if I’m lucky—optimize life itself.
Homework Questions from Professor Jacobson Nature’s machinery for copying DNA is called polymerase. What is the error rate of polymerase? How does this compare to the length of the human genome. How does biology deal with that discrepancy? Solution: Error rate of DNA polymerase in DNA Polymerase is ~1 error per 10^5 nucleotides during raw DNA synthesis. When compared to human genome (3 × 10⁹ base pairs) this accounts to 30,000 mutations per replication. This discrepancy is handled by