https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/jay-handfield/week-02-hw-dna-design/index.htmlKernel Setup I am putting my work for this homework in ‘All repositories/HTBAA26_WilliamandMary/Jay Handfield/mycosporines’. There are several parts in that folder but the main construct is ‘mycosporine_enzyme_genes’ Expression Target To make the durable greenhouse plastic from chitosan you of course need chitosan, but that is naturally created in relatively large amounts from many species of zygomycetes, so I am instead focussing for this homework on what needs to be produced to make the plastic resistant to UV radiation. Without UV protection the polymers that make up the chitosan will be damaged by the UV radiation and the radicals that the UV radiation generates. Over time this will cause the greenhouse plastic to lose its structural integrity leading to splits and cracks in the plastic. To protect the greenhouse plastic we need some natural susbstance that strongly absorbs UV light is transparent to visible light. It turns out that fungi and other microbes like cynabacteria naturally produce their own sunscreens called Mycosporing-like Amino Acids or MAAs, which are exactly what we need. For this homework I will focus on trying to produce MAAs in standard model organism.Hugoen