Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
Explaination: Biological Application: I want to extract the genes of the bioluminiscent fungi and enhace their glow by chemical mutations which can be used as a part of social infrastructure, space exploration and in times of energy. The governance policy goals and the framework: I have developed my owm framework shared above. The policy goals are as following: 1.Ensure the environment integrity, the horizontal mutation may add to environmental problems. 2.Bio Security the end product can be used as a threat to bio security. 3.public engagement is also very important where public must know that they have been exposed to bio engineered materials.
Week 1 CW: Principles and Practices
My Classwork Reflecting on what you learned and did in class this week, outline any ethical concerns that arose, especially any that were new to you. Then propose any governance actions you think might be appropriate to address those issues. This should be included on your class page for this week. Reflecting on the class, I was very fascinated by the idea of bio security and this was something very new to me. This has motivated me to do more research on it and after connecting the dots, I have relaized that its directly related to my topic and an essentia governance issue. Moreover, the following governance actions can be proposed: 1.Strict biosecurity laws 2.Better border protocols 3.Use of reseachers and sensors
Week 2 Lecture Prep: r/w/e dna
##Pre Reading and Question Answer Exercise-Part of Week 2 Lecture Prep Q.1: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? Ans:The error rate of polymerase is 10-4 as stated in bio numbers polymerase.The human genome has 3 billion base pairs. biology resolves this high error rate through multilayeres proof reading systems suvh as exonuclyotoc proofreading , post replcation and proofreading in the trans. Reference: website.https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?s=n&v=2&id=105476