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A New Kind of Inheritance
Could be Anything!
Feeling Lucky?
100
Required by some transposons, this enzyme synthesizes DNA from an RNA template.
What is reverse transcriptase?
100
In a population in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, this algebraic term represents the frequency of heterozygotes.
What is 2pq?
100
Modifications to these proteins contribute to the Epigenetic "Code"
What are histones?
100
This vessels carries DE-oxygenated blood AWAY from the heart.
What is the pulmonary artery?
200
These elements, PCR amplified in lab, belong to a class of elements known as SINEs and comprise >10% of the human genome.
What is Alu?
200
This kind of mating would disrupt HW equilibrium.
What is non-random mating?
200
Genes can be silenced by methylation of DNA in these gene regions.
What are promotors?
200
These modified muscle cells allow squid to undergo rapid color change.
What are chromatophores?
300
The organism in which Barbara McClintock first identified jumping genes.
What is corn?
300
In a one gene, two allele population wide system, 1 - p equals this.
What is q?
300
These epigenetic marks are erased and re-established during human gametogenesis.
What are imprints?
300
This type of muscle fiber is dark in color and has high aerobic capacity
What is a slow twitch fiber?
300
This strand of DNA has a sequence identical to mRNA, but has "T"s instead of "U"s.
What is the coding strand?
400
Transposons are highly mobile during normal development in this tissue.
What is the brain?
400
Differential reproductive success among members of a population is a result of this force.
What is (natural) selection?
400
The individual structural units of chromatin made up of DNA and the 8 histone proteins around which it is wrapped.
What are nucleosomes?
400
Part of the phosphagen system, this molecule donates phosphate to ADP to create ATP.
What is P-Creatine?
400
The Lac Repressor molecule binds to this regulatory element of the operon.
What is the operator?
500
These human transposons are derived from RNA viruses that have lost their ability to break out of their host cells.
What are HERVs? (Human Endogenous Retroviruses)
500
Allele frequencies can change in unpredictable ways as a result of this random force.
What is drift?
500
Actively transcribed genes can be silenced when they are experimentally relocated from euchromatin to these chromosomal regions.
What is heterochromatin?
500
Thick filaments in muscle are made up of this protein.
What is myosin?
500
The maximum number of individuals that can be supported within a defined area.
What is carrying capacity?
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