Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
| Does the option: | Option 1 | Option 2 | Option 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enhance Biosecurity | |||
| • By preventing incidents | |||
| • By helping respond | |||
| Foster Lab Safety | |||
| • By preventing incident | |||
| • By helping respond | |||
| Protect the environment | |||
| • By preventing incidents | |||
| • By helping respond | |||
| Other considerations | |||
| • Minimizing costs and burdens to stakeholders | |||
| • Feasibility? | |||
| • Not impede research | |||
| • Promote constructive applications |
Homework Questions from Professor Jacobson
- What is the error rate of polymerase?
- 10^6
- How does this compare to the length of the human genome.
- d
- How does biology deal with that discrepancy?
- How many different ways are there to code (DNA nucleotide code) for an average human protein?
- In practice what are some of the reasons that all of these different codes don’t work to code for the protein of interest?