FIRST COURSE IN SYSTEMS
BIOLOGY 2ND EDITION
COURSEWORK 2026 COMPLETE
TASKS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ Experimentally. Answer: development of microarrays to measure the
levels of thousands of mRNAs simultaneously allowed us to see how
many components in a cell change in response to stimuli
◉ Computationally. Answer: simulations showed how interaction
between components give rise to functional capabilities (in this case
switching behavior) that the individual components do not have.
◉ Chemotaxis. Answer: The characteristic movement or orientation of
an organism or cell along a chemical concentration gradient either
toward or away from the chemical stimulus
◉ Experiments and Computation. Answer: together showed how certain
system behavior such as adaptation in
bacterial chemotaxis is robust ...that is insensitive to variation of
concentrations of protein components in the network
◉ Physiology has provided description of.... Answer: functions at
tissue/organ level, most often from a phenomenological perspective... a
very useful and essential starting point
BIOLOGY 2ND EDITION
COURSEWORK 2026 COMPLETE
TASKS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ Experimentally. Answer: development of microarrays to measure the
levels of thousands of mRNAs simultaneously allowed us to see how
many components in a cell change in response to stimuli
◉ Computationally. Answer: simulations showed how interaction
between components give rise to functional capabilities (in this case
switching behavior) that the individual components do not have.
◉ Chemotaxis. Answer: The characteristic movement or orientation of
an organism or cell along a chemical concentration gradient either
toward or away from the chemical stimulus
◉ Experiments and Computation. Answer: together showed how certain
system behavior such as adaptation in
bacterial chemotaxis is robust ...that is insensitive to variation of
concentrations of protein components in the network
◉ Physiology has provided description of.... Answer: functions at
tissue/organ level, most often from a phenomenological perspective... a
very useful and essential starting point
