Exam 17: Genomes

Studies investigating the genetic diversity of organisms within a sample of marsh soil, rather than the genome of individual organisms, would be considered part of the burgeoning field of _______.

Selective inactivation studies show that the minimal genome of a C. elegans worm consists of about _______ genes.

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)

The bacterium that is the source for most of the naturally occurring antibiotics in current clinical use is

Which of the following is most likely to be required for the evolution of a pseudogene?

Transposable elements

Which of the following human chromosomes has the fewest genes?

Which of the following statements comparing the human genome to that of invertebrates like C. elegans and D. melanogaster is true?

Do you think that "artificial life" would be created if a synthetic genome inserted into an existing bacterial cell were to be fully functional?

Comparative genomics

Of the protein-coding genes in eukaryotes,

Which of the following statements about transposable elements is false?

Humans have roughly _______ the number of genes as D. melanogaster and about _______ the number of genes as S. cerevisae.

One commonly used method of high-throughput sequencing relies on _______ to amplify DNA fragments on microbeads.

Which of the following statements about the Human Genome Project (HGP) is false?

E. coli and its relatives often make toxins against their natural enemies called colicins. From the perspective of metabolomics, these colicins would be considered _______ metabolites.

Which of the following about genome sequencing is true?

Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis separates proteins based on _______ and _______.

_______ are the host of the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae.

The genomes of the fruit fly and the nematode are similar to that of yeast, except that the former organisms have many genes for