Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
- Description of a biological engineering application or tool that you want to develop and why: My idea as a project for HTGAA 2026 is to develop and implement “Hemoneubauer with artificial intelligence”, an application that uses artificial vision, in order to quantify and classify blood cells from a direct image, with the ability to display in real timea precision grid.
Questions from Professor Jacobson: The natural mechanism for copying DNA is called polymerase. What is the error rate of polymerase?: In DNA synthesis, replicative DNA polymerases have an intrinsic error rate of 1:10⁶. How does it compare to the length of the human genome?: Comparing with the intrinsic error rate of the polymerase, it is considered that the length of the human genome is large enough for the intrinsic error rate of the polymerase to produce a load of mutations incompatible with life. cellular correction systems.