Homework

Weekly homework submissions:

• Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices

  HTGAA Week 1 – Class Assignment Student: Camarena Trujillo, Leonardo Joaquín

1. Biological engineering application I would like to work on a portable, non-invasive glucose monitoring biosensor based on enzymatic detection. The idea is to use enzymes such as glucose oxidase to detect glucose levels from alternative body fluids like sweat or saliva, instead of traditional finger-prick blood tests.

• Week 2 HW: DNA Read, Write, and Edit

  Week 2 Lecture Preparation Professor Jacobson 1. What is the error rate of polymerase and how does biology handle it? DNA polymerases typically have an error rate of about 10⁻⁷ to 10⁻⁸ per base after proofreading. The human genome has around 3 billion base pairs, so without correction there would be many mutations each replication cycle. Biology solves this discrepancy through proofreading mechanisms in polymerases and additional mismatch repair systems, which reduce the effective mutation rate.