Jcowan4 Journal Week 2

The Purpose

What was the purpose of your investigations?

The purpose was to:

• Determine differences in DNA sequence of alleles
• Determine how DNA sequence of pigment protein genes determines color of the protein produced
• Figure out how the results of how alleles interact
• Construct a purple proptein

Your Methods

What did you actually do? Give a step by step account.

1. Using the information fromo gentics and part 1 we cross bred plants to find the purple protein
2. Repeated process to find all combination for the purple protein (one combination only)
3. After finding the purple protein my homework partner and I compared the DNA sequence of different plants
4. After the comparing the DNA sequence we proceeded to compare amino acid chains
5. We then located the amino acids that create the purple pigmentation
6. We then altered the amino acid sequence to make a pure purple protein/flower

A Scientific Conclusion

What was your main finding for today's project? Did you fulfill the purpose? Why or why not?

• The main finding was how to figure out how to affect DNA sequence and amino acid sequence in order to create a new breed type of plant. Also, to understand how to locate and figure out what each sequence does and how it represents the object. We fulfilled our purpose because we figured out how to locate and create a new breed of purple flowers.

Acknowledgements

• Dr. Dahlquist
• Yeabsira Mesfin

"Except for what is noted above, this individual journal entry was completed by me and not copied from another source."

References

Aipotu. (2017, May 24). Retrieved on September 11, 2019 from http://aipotu.umb.edu/

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Week 2 Assignment