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? Homework Questions from Dr. LeProust Homework Question from George Church