Exam 16: Recombinant Dna Technology and Its Applications

The process of finding the location of genes and functional (e.g., regulatory) sequences and their functions within a genome sequence is called_______ .

The use of computational approaches to understand DNA sequence information is called_______.

To study the maximum amount of genome diversity in humans, which of the following provides the most information?

Although whole- genome duplications that result in polyploidy are fairly common in plant species, which of the following are common in other eukaryotes?

________is a strategy that compiles genome sequence from many overlapping DNA sequences each corresponding to a random location in the target genome.

A gene in a sheep- like species has been found to differ from that in related species by the inclusion of a variable number of tandem repeats of a short sequence. These repeats or duplications arise from what process?

Groups of genes that are evolutionarily related are called ________. A) metagenomes B) gene domains C) gene duplications D) gene families E) SNPs

Which of the following would likely exclude a sequence from being considered as an active gene?

Sequencing of DNA from a community of organisms rather than from a single individual is known as_______ .

A researcher has produced groups of contigs that are linked via paired- end sequences, although these include some sequence gaps. What are these groups called?

Which is more likely to be the case for gene A found at the hub of a genetic network, compared to gene B, in the same network but not in a hub?

Conservation of DNA sequence within an intron across wide taxa suggests that this sequence is important for _______.

__________can lead to the evolution of a gene with new functions while maintaining the ancestral function.

In humans, a large number of genes associated with immune function share sequence similarity and are evolutionarily related. Together these genes are referred to as what kind of group?

Under what circumstances is a metagenomic analysis preferable to analysis of a gene or genes from a single species?