(a) Read through the various responses to the Discussion Board forum Question relating to Richard Resnick's video (Question 1}. Based on your classmates' responses and your own thinking, is having a very affordable way to sequence anyone's genome a generally good thing or a M thing? Explain your position. (b) Richard Resnick talks about the evolution of the typewriter through personal computers through the internet revolution. He shows a picture of a primitive computer (at 8:00m) and says that that is where we are, as far as the genomic revolution is concerned. His point is that we are in the vepy early stages of the genomic revolution. He then talks about the next stage in the evolution of the use of genomes— connecting all our genomes across the planet. Explain how connecting all our genomes potentially revolutionizes our understanding of life, and also the commercial applications of such a technology. 2. In light of Dr. Francis Collins' video lecture, discuss what you think are the possible ways that bioinformatics can assist in ?nding the cu re for the current pandemic of COVlD-19. 3. Riccardo Sabbatinir in his video presentation, showed a vial of blood from an "unknown" person, and based on its genetic analysis, their machine learning algorithm produced a prediction of a face which turned out to be remarkably close to the person's actual face. How do you feel about this kind of technology? What are the potential benefits of this technology? Can this technology be abused? 4. Dr. Kenneth Dill talked about amino acids, and the role they play in protein shape. Describe how the shape of proteins are formed in terms ofamino acids. In other words, how does the sequence of amino acids dictate the final shape of the protein?

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