Plot a smooth graph of the relative number of colonies you expect as a function of time, and explain the features of your plot. Assume it takes one minute to completely transcribe a gene, and that translation of the message starts within seconds of transcription initiation. This time, however, you plan to measure the total beta galactosidase activity in the mixture every minute. Explain the features of this plot. Question 2 Orthomporphs are hypothetical animals that breed once a year by shedding their gametes into turbulent, well mixed streams.
Sex determination occurs as in Drosophila.
After shedding, the females kill one male, eat it, use the energy to lay two hundred eggs, and then die in the winter. About 2 of the eggs escape predation, hatch the following spring and rapidly mature to breed later in the summer. Suppose an allele A2 arises this year from A1 by mutation in a female zygote in a population of 1 million diploid individuals. A2 is dominant to A1 and confers a selective advantage, such that a mature female individual with the A1 allele lays 400 eggs, each of which has a normal chance of hatching and breeding next year. A population of size 50 reproduces in such a way that the population size remains constant.