User:Csulli25

I am currently in my third year at the University of Western Ontario enrolled in the course Advanced Genetics. I am still not completely sure of how wikipedia works, but I am sure I will figure it out soon.

Can't wait to start editing!

Option One: Symbiogenesis

 * Make the history section more clear in terms of chronology (who did what first).
 * Expand on the idea that genes are lost/transferred by adding information about where they go, why they might stay and what the remaining genes encode.
 * Add information about tertiary and serial secondary endosymbiosis to fully describe the diversity of eukaryotes.
 * What are the roadblocks of gene transfer (the process which leads to an endosymbiont becoming an organelle)?
 * Evolutionary implications?

Option Two: Homeosis

 * More specific information on homeotic mutants in both animals and plants.
 * Types of mutations that cause homeotic mutant phenotypes (indels, SNP, CNV etc.)
 * "Homeosis is a characteristic that has helped insects become as successful and diverse as they are.[3]" --> how?

Preliminary Ideas

 * Make the history section more clear in terms of chronology (who did what first).
 * Expand on the idea that genes are lost/transferred by adding information about where they go, why they might stay and what the remaining genes encode.
 * Add information about tertiary and serial secondary endosymbiosis to fully describe the diversity of eukaryotes.
 * What are the roadblocks of gene transfer (the process which leads to an endosymbiont becoming an organelle)?
 * Evolutionary implications?

Gene Transfer
Which genes remain in the organelles and what happens to the other genes (various hypotheses). How might these genes have become incorporated into the nuclear genome and what consequences this has had: good (getting a functional protein) and bad (mutations causing disease).