Biology

2. The connection between what Wyatt Transgenics Company does, and the reference to the comic “The Swamp Thing” is, that they both have to deal with organisms that undergo some sort of manipulation. “The Swamp thing is an example of this. (Page 64-65) 3. The meaning of transgenic is when an organism is altered by having a gene from another species transferred into it. (Page 64) 4. The scientists make the animals develop the desired proteins by, putting original human genes in to the animals causing them to express certain human therapeutic proteins in their milk. The scientists access the proteins by, giving the animals the genes, then they milk the animals and purify the proteins out of the milk, and lastly have the proteins made into different medical applications. (Page 66-67) 5. The proteins from the animals’ milk can be used by, being purified and then being put in a variety of medical applications. (Page 67) 6. Huntington’s disease testing for adults first became legal in the year 1993. Eli’s blood was sent in to Harriet Emerson tested to see if he had the Huntington’s gene or not, but the test was not for children, so Eli’s parents said that the blood sample was Eli’s dads. (Page 171-172) 7. A chimera according to the book is, a being that was created by the experimental recombination of DNA from different sources. (Page 189) 8. The term chimera relates to Eli and Kayla, because they “share some of the same DNA” (Page 189) 9. The marker for Huntington’s disease is “C-A-G. Repeats: 59.” (Page 231) 10. The acts of of Dr. Wyatt were not considered illegal, but they were not a “good thing”, and they were shut down. (page 242) 11. The names of the nucleotides notated as C-A-G are, Cytosine - Adenine – Guanine. (Page 125) 12. I agree with the disabled man who states, “ I don’t understand. We don’t make any trouble. We don’t steal things or kill people. We don’t take the good jobs. Why do you want to kill us?” because all the