Homework

Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
Week 1 assigment Valeria Quesada Ortega - Sj, Costa Rica. Project. Development of a bioengineered gastronomic powder designed to create a multisensory dining experience without modifying the original ingredients. the powder will consist of edible microcapsules made from food grade biopolymers that will remain stable during plating but dissolve when exposed to the normal pH of human saliva. Upon dissolution, the microcapsules will release microbursts with encapsulated umami compounds, such as glutamate extracts from algae or fermented foods.
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
Homework Questions from Professor Jacobson: 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? -DNA polymerase has an error rate of aprox one mistake per 108 nucleotides during DNA replication. This significant on the human genome which has around 3 x109 base pairs, so without correction, this woul result in a lot of mutations per replication. Biology addresses this discrepancy through multiple error correction mechanisms, such as post replication mismatch repair, to reduce the error rate to aprox one error per 10^9 nucleotides, maintaining th genomic stability.