Homework

Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
BIO QR CODES My Synthetic Biology proposal is to create Biological QR codes that update based on the body's internal signals. (Think Biomarkers). They act as unique IDs. This is based on the dermal abyss study done by researchers at MIT and Harvard, back in 2017. "Living" tattoos take in the body's metabolic signals as inputs. (This image is from Fluxey, Deviant art: link)
Week 2 HW: DNA Read, Write & Edit
Professor Jacobson: The error rate of DNA polymerase differs in organisms and also because there are different types of polymerase enzymes. Usually this accuracy is 1 in 100,000 bp before proof reading and error correction. (I used an AI prompt to confirm, the prompt: 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?). The length of the human genome is around 3.2 billion bp. To compare, without error correction, this would cause around 32,000 errors if the entire genome is replicated .To correct for this, biology employs DNA repair mechanisms and proof reading that massively reduce the error rate.