Essays on Glutamine

Introduction

Sickle Cell Anemia or Sickle Cell Disease is an inherited blood ailment. Those suffering from Sickle Cell Disease have abnormal S/ sickle hemoglobin in the red blood cells. Hemoglobin is the protein in the blood that aids in carrying oxygen throughout the body. The ailment takes its appellation from the shape of the red blood cells of a person affected by Sickle Cell Disease, which have the shape of a sickle. They are stiff and adhesive rather than a disk like normal cells. The misshapen cells tend to get trapped in the small blood vessels hindering the movement of ...

In 1872, the 22-year-old George Huntington presented a paper describing an elaborately outlined inheritance pattern of a disease, which during the time was referred to as "chorea." In his paper, which was presented at the Meigs and Mason Academy of Medicine at Ohio, George described all the features of the adult-onset form of the disorder and outlined the disease’s autosomal-dominant pattern of inheritance. Although the mechanism underlying the inheritance pattern of the disease was not understood until the rediscovery of Mendel’s works, his paper was so comprehensive that George Huntington quickly became widely acclaimed. In fact, he ...

Choose a gene that has been implicated in a human developmental disorder

FOXP2 is a gene that codes for a member of the transcription factors’ forkhead /winged-helix family, FOX. It is situated from base pair 114,086,309 to base pair 114,693,771 on the chromosome 7’s long (q) arm at position 31. The gene has 42 distinct introns, which include 41gt-ag and 1 other. The first FOXP2 report depicted 19 exons, of which two, namely 3a and 3b, are variably spliced into transcripts that cover about 300 kb on the chromosome 7q31 (Lai, Fisher and Hurst).

Several alternative transcripts, as well as protein isoforms, have been predicted on the ...

Abstract

The aim of this experiment was to determine the titration curves exhibited by two amino acids (Glutamic acid and Alanine) and use them to determine their Pka values and their isolectric point. Results from the experiment reveal several interesting facts as will be seen throughout this paper. As ampoteric compounds, this paper seeks to investigate these base-acid properties found in amino acids. Therefore, this paper will have the following basic parts; introduction, procedure for titration, discussion of titration results with reference to the titration curves as well as a conclusion. The introduction part will give an in-depth look at the ...

Dear Grandma,

Our body has tissues and organs that are made up of different types of cells. Each cell contains the deoxyribonucleic acid also known as DNA. This double-stranded DNA is made up of 4 chemical molecules also known as bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thymine (T). In the DNA, A always pairs with T; C always pairs with G. These strands are nothing but sequences of these bases that run really long. So typically a short sequence of DNA if written down in English will read:

AGTCCCGGTTC

TCAGGCCAAG The DNA sequences are 99% alike in all humans, but ...