Lesson 4
Bringing it all together
Purple! �How can we change Halo’s pink phenotype into a purple phenotype in our lab?
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Pink Halo
Purple Halo
?
Can your network help plan for this experiment?
Mutants
Mutants are organisms that have
forcibly expressed or removed genes
ADP + P
ATP
LIGHT
bop
CrtY
CrtB1
Brp
bat
lycopene
beta-carotene
retinal
bacteriorhodopsin
(BR)
GG-PP
phytoene
+
+
+
What do you think
Halobacterium salinarum mutants �(bat +, bat -, bop-) will look like? (What phenotype will you see?)