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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Q. A third category of TEs has features of both class I and class II TEs. These miniature, inverted repeat TEs (MITES) are ________ in length.

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Q. Which of the given features is incorrect?

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Q. Eukaryotic genes that encode proteins are interrupted by ________

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Q. Introns can remain at a corresponding position in a eukaryotic gene for long periods of evolutionary time.

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Q. The intron structure of genes in a particular eukaryote is used for predicting the location of genes of genome sequences.

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Q. Sequencing of genomes depends on the assembly of a large number of DNA reads into a linear, contiguous DNA sequence.

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Q. Each genome sequence is scanned for protein-encoding genes using gene models trained on known gene sequences from the same organism.

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Q. Screening the predicted protein sequences against ______ library confirms the prediction and expression of the gene.

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Q. In case of genome sequence assembly which of the given statement is incorrect?

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Q. TEs (Transposable Elements) can at most comprise one-fourth of the genome sequence.

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Q. Gene identification in prokaryotic organisms is simplified by their lacking _________

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