Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
Engineered Biosensors For the Detection of Illegal Mining Pollutants Week One’s Principles and Practice class taught us the foundations of ethics, safety, and governance using biotechnology. While pondering ideas for the bioengineered tool or application, I was inspired by the battle against the ongoing menace of small-scale illegal mining in Ghana propularly known as “Galamsey”.
Week 2 HW: DNA - READ, WRITE & EDIT
Homework Part 0: Basics of Gel Electrophoresis I have watched all the lecture slides and reciatation videos. Part 1: Benchling & In-silico Gel Art I created a benchling account and imported the Lambda DNA
Python Script for Opentrons Artwork This has been the most interesting and somewhat challenging assignment so far. I chose make an artistic design based on the adrinkra symbols. The adinkra symbols are a set of visual symbols from Ghana, created by the Akan people to represent philosophical concepts, historical events, and social proverbs.
Part A. Conceptual Questions Question 1. How many molecules of amino acids do you take with a piece of 500 grams of meat? (on average an amino acid is ~100 Daltons) Answer A dalton is a unit of mass used to express the mass of atoms, molecules, and other subatomic particles.