led and serving nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive a $25,000 grant from the Hispanic Federation (HF) in partnership with Comcast NBCUniversal to enhance and expand its digital workforce training activities. The award is a part of the Hispanic Federation’s and Comcast’s new Latino Digital Equity Centers initiative, which is a national effort to strengthen institutions serving the Latino community with workforce development and digital training programs.
With the funds, Miami Ed Tech will receive a first-of-its-kind training program known as the Digital Accelerator, designed for Latino-led nonprofits to strengthen their organizational capacity, programmatic offerings, and reach in the digital workforce development space. In addition, the organizations will offer a Digital Career Center that provides both online and in-person trainings to community members seeking to increase their digital skills and get connected to employment opportunities that leverage those skills.
According to the Miami Foundation, one in every five Miami-Dade residents does not have broadband Internet access at home.
Over the next decade, 50% of tasks across all industries are expected to go digital, eliminating as many as 39 million jobs—and by 2030, at least two-thirds of jobs will require some level of digital skills. Latino workers are 14% of overall workers but represent 35% of workers with no digital skills and 20% of those with limited digital skills.
Because Latino workers tend to work in less digital-facing fields, they are at higher risk for future under- and unemployment. With the new grant, Miami Ed Tech aims to conduct Computer Science training programs locally.
According to Miami Ed Tech, while Computer Science wages are more than twice those of non-STEM jobs, minorities and economically disadvantaged students, are underrepresented in the Computer Science workforce. This funding will support Miami EdTech in growing its industry certification training both virtually and in-person. Nationwide, the initiative will train 6,000 Latinos over the next year.
In selecting grantees for the Latino Digital Equity Centers Program, Hispanic Federation prioritized Latino-led and serving 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations with a demonstrated track record providing workforce development to Latino communities and commitment to enhance or expand a digital skills training program.
This program builds on Comcast’s long-term commitment to advance digital equity through Internet Essentials since 2011 and more recently, the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). Qualified customers throughout the company’s service area are eligible to apply the ACP credit towards any tier of Internet service, including Internet Essentials and the new Internet Essentials Plus service, which includes 100 Mbps download speeds, a cable modem, and a WiFi router. Monthly bills for Internet Essentials and Internet Essentials Plus are both completely covered by the ACP credit. Additionally, Xfinity Internet customers participating in ACP now can add mobile service through Xfinity Mobile.
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What is intermediate phenotype?
DNA is organized into chromosomes and virtually all cells within the individual contains the same nuclear genetic material. Gene regulation determines gene expression.
In eubacteria such as E coli, genetic material is present as a long circular DNA molecule compacted in an unenclosed nucleoid. Extends to a large part of the cell and does not undergo extensive coiling, nor is it associated extensively with proteins. They do contain genes specifying rRNA.
The remainder of a eukaryote within the plasma is the cytoplasm, containing colloidal material called the cytosol, encompassing cellular organelles. Contain tubules and filaments, composing of cytoskeleton to provide support structures consisting of microtubules, which are composed of protein tubulin and microfilaments, derived from the protein actin. It maintains the shape and facilitates mobility for the cell, anchoring organelles. The endoplasmic reticulum compartmentalizes the cytoplasm, increasing surface area. The ER is smooth where fatty acids and phospholipids are synthesized; in others rough because of ribosomes.
What is heterogeneous trait?
Ribosomes are sites where genetic information in mRNA is translated into proteins. Mitochondria are found in most eukaryotes and are sites of oxidative phases of cell respiration. It generates ATP. Chloroplasts (mostly found in plants) are associated with photosynthesis. Both contain DNA in a form distinct from the nucleus; it is also capable of duplicating, transcribing and translating its own genetic information. They closely resemble prokarya. These organelles were once primitive free-living organisms that established a relationship with primitive eukaryaꟷendosymbiont hypothesis.
Centrioles, located in centrosomes, are associated with spindle fibers that function during cell division. The organization of spindle fibers by centrioles occurs early in mitosis/meiosis and plays a role in movement of chromosomes as they separate during cell division. They are composed of microtubules consisting of tubulin.
What are the conditional mutation?
Each chromosome contains a constricted region of the centromere which establishes the appearance of each chromosome.
chromosomes. Each of the 46 is a double structure consisting of 2 sister chromatids connected by a centromere.
Haploid number (n) is equal to half of the diploid. The genetic information contained in the haploid set of chromosomes constitutes the genome, which includes a copy of all genes including noncoding ones.
Homologous chromosomes have identical gene sites, called loci (singular: locus). These are identical in traits and genetic potential. In sexual organisms, one member of each pair is derived from ovum and sperm. Each diploid organism contains two copies of each gene as bi-parental consequence/inheritance, which come from both parents. Members of each pair of genes can influence each pair of genes that are not identical. Alleles are different versions of the same gene.
Multicellular diploid organisms begin life as single-celled fertilized eggs (zygotes). The mitotic activity of the zygote is the foundation for development and growth of the organism. In adults, mitotic activity is the basis for wound healing and cell replacement. Karyokinesis is the partition of genetic material into daughter cells during nuclear division. Nuclear division is very exact; results in the production of daughter nuclei with exact same chromosome composition. This is followed by cytokinesis where it parts and splits the plasma membrane. As the cytoplasm is reconstituted, organelles replicate themselves and arise from existing membrane structures or synthesized de novo in each cell.
Interphase: the initial stage of the cell cycle, the interval between divisions and includes the replication of DNA in each chromosome.
synthesized. It includes the metabolic activity, cell growth and cell differentiation. By the end of G2, the cell has doubled in size and DNA has been replicated.
Mitosis begins. During G1 cells either enter the G0 stage or proceed through G1. Those in G0 do not proliferate.
The next stages are leg by migration of the chromosomes; which in turn are led by centromere regions to the equatorial plane/metaphase plateꟷperpendicular to the axis established by spindle fibers. Prometaphase is the period of chromosome movement and metaphase is applied to the chromosome configuration following immigration.
Migration is possible by the binding of the spindle fibers to the kinetochore, an assembly of multilayered proteins associated with centromeres. This forms on opposite sides of each paired centromere in association with sister chromatids. Once attached the cohesin is disintegrated by separase and sisters disjoin except at the centromere. The protein family of shugoshin protects cohesion from being degraded at the centromere.
Mutations of the kinetochore proteins can potentially lead to errors during chromosome migration along the diploid content of daughter cells. Kinetochore microtubules from spindle fibers lengthen and shorten as a result of addition or reduction of polarized tubulin subunits. They each have one end near the centrosome region and another at the kinetochore.
3. Chromatids must go to opposite end of the cell.
Steps in anaphase are critical. In human cells, there would be 46 chromosomes at each pole of the cell, one from each sister pair.
down across the region of the metaphase plate. Animal cells undergo constriction of the cytoplasm, the cell plate in plants is laid down and becomes the middle lamella. Primary and secondary layers of the cell as are deposited between the membrane and m. lamella in each daughter cell. In animal cells, constriction produces a cell furrow. Chromosomes begin to uncoil, the nuclear envelope reforms, spindle fibers disperse, etc. The cell enters Interphase.
growth is inadequate