How might your lifestyle change if human activities were to…

How might your lifestyle change if human activities were to contribute to the extinction of 20–50% of the world’s identified species during this century? How might this affect the lives of any children or grandchildren you eventually might have? List two aspects of your lifestyle that contribute to this threat to the earth’s natural capital. Hint: State at least two pieces of evidence/reasoning from our discussions and the chapters we have read this semester to back up your claims.

The rpl-22 gene in C. elegans has two annotated splice varia…

The rpl-22 gene in C. elegans has two annotated splice variants and there is indeed EST evidence (green) for both variants (image below), but it is a little bit unbalanced.  The secondary isoform (shown on top) encodes for a much shorter protein and has very little transcript evidence.   To resolve this, the RPL12 protein was analyzed using mass spec (image below). Does the mass spec data provide support for the shorter isoform (YESS/NO)?