Classical Genetics
Proteins
Recombinant DNA
Genes and Genomes
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100

True or false: A centimorgan is the length of an interval where there is a 1% chance that two markers on a chromosome will separate during mitosis

False - there is no recombination during mitosis

100

True or false: Fluorescence resonance energy transfer, or FRET, is a technique used to analyze protein binding, specifically protein-protein interactions.

True

100

True or false. Sanger sequencing and zinc finger nucleases are methods of DNA sequencing, whereas CRISPR-Cas9 and Oxford Nanopore are methods of gene editing.

False - ZFNs are for gene editing and nanopore is a method of sequencing

100

True or false: R-loop mapping involves hybridizing mRNA to genomic DNA and observing loops in unpaired regions to map introns.

True

100

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200

This early microscopy technique allowed for the identification of different organelles and cell compartments.

Light microscope

200

Describe secondary structure of proteins.

Regions of folding patterns made stable by hydrogen bonds

200

This technique involves the deliberate introduction of a mutation and can be used to test whether a residue is catalytic.

Site-directed mutagenesis

200

Explain the concept of degeneracy in the context of codon coding.

Multiple codons can code for the same amino acid. Degeneracy usually occurs in the third position.

200

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300

Name two non-Mendelian inheritance patterns.

Possible answers: incomplete dominance, co-dominance, pleiotropy, epistasis, variable penetrance or expressivity

300

Explain the role of chaperones.

Provide a protected environment to facilitate protein folding

300

State the three main steps of a PCR amplification.

Denaturation, annealing, extension

300

Identify which statement is FALSE regarding structural packaging and genome organization across domains:

  1. Viruses can have genomes composed of ssRNA, dsRNA, ssDNA, or dsDNA, packaged by histones.

  2. Bacteria typically possess circular dsDNA chromosomes. 

  3. Eukaryotes possess multiple linear dsDNA chromosomes.

1 - Only eukaryotes and archaea use histones for packaging.

300

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400

Mendel’s second law states that ________________________________.

Segregation of the alleles of one allelic pair is independent of the segregation of the alleles of another allelic pair

400

Explain intrinsically disordered domains.

Regions of proteins that lack a fixed three-dimensional structure and instead remain flexible and dynamic

400

Name one method of passing DNA through the cellular envelope during transformation.

Possible answers: heat shock (chemical), electroporation (electrical), biolistics (physical), via biological vectors

400

Name two defects or sequence alterations that could mark or inactivate a pseudogene.

Possible answers: Missing promoter, missing start codon, frameshift, premature stop codon (nonsense mutation), missing introns, partial deletion, loss of splicing junctions, missense mutations

400

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500

Identify which is FALSE about genetic maps and explain why:

  1. Genetic maps are built from crosses.

  2. Genetic maps are measured in base pairs.

  3. Genetic maps will have genes in the same order as physical maps.

2 - Genetic maps are measured in centimorgans, not bp. And 3, genetic maps can sometimes have genes in a different order.

500

Name three types of protein groups (according to their function).

Possible answers: Enzymes, structural proteins, scaffold proteins, transport proteins, motor proteins, storage proteins, signaling proteins, receptor proteins, regulatory proteins, specialized proteins

500

Name 3 ways restriction enzymes can differ from one another.

Possible answers: Recognition sequence, cut pattern (blunt or sticky), type (I, II, etc.), sensitivity to DNA methylation

500

Explain what’s wrong with this statement: 

“Maize’s genome is 16 times larger than Arabidopsis’, meaning it’s 16 times more complex.”

Genome size doesn’t correlate with organismal complexity, and extra DNA can be in the form of non-coding repetitive sequences rather than new genes. Functional complexity arises from gene regulation and expression mechanisms.

500

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