Q. Analysis of the ribosomal RNA molecules of prokaryotes and eukaryotes had led to the prediction of three main branches in the tree of life.

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Q. Annotation involves identifying open reading frames in the genome sequence.

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Q. A simple way to retrieve sequences of viral and other extra-chromosomal genetic elements such as organelles is through the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

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Q. Which of the given is wrongly matched?

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Q. In examining the results of analysis, it is important to look for the method used the statistical significance of the result, and the overall degree of confidence in the alignments.

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Q. Computational resources can facilitate the analysis of bacterial genomes.

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Q. Telomeres hold newly replicated daughter chromosomes together.

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Q. Prokaryotic genomes commonly have tandem repeats of sequences and include introns in protein-coding genes.

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Q. The sequences of satellite DNA fall into different types, each with a different repeat unit of length _____

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Q. Most of the repetitive DNA is found near the open ends of chromosomes.

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Q. Minisatellites are made up of repeat units of up to ____ and microsatellites compose of repeat units of ____ or less.

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Q. In nondividing cells, a mixture of lightly and darkly stained chromosomal regions called euchromatin and heterochromatin respectively, are observed.

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Q. Genes that are transcribed are located in the ______

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Q. ______ can comprise a large proportion of the eukaryotic genome as ______

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Q. (Transposable Elements) TEs have the potential to _____ in number until they comprise a ____ proportion of the genome sequence.

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Q. More than _____ of the human genome consists of interspersed repetitive sequences derived from TEs (transposable elements).

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Q. The retroposons include short _________ interspersed nuclear elements (SINES).

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Q. _____ of the human genome comprises one particular family of the SINE Element, designated Alu (1.2 million copies).

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Q. Vertebrate chromosomes have long (>300 kb) regions of distinct GC richness, repeat content, and gene density, designated isochores in a model of genome organization proposing that genomes are made up of distinct segments of unique composition.

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Q. The human genome contains about _________ of class II of elements that probably predate human evolution (Smit 1996).

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