#Question id: 5209
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
If humans have 2,900 Mb, a specific member of the lily family has 120,000 Mb, and a yeast has ~13 Mb, why canʹt this data allow us to order their evolutionary significance
#Question id: 5210
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Which of the following is a representation of gene density?
#Question id: 5211
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Why might the cricket genome have 11 times as many base pairs than that of Drosophila melanogaster?
#Question id: 5212
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Barbara McClintock, famous for discovering that genes could move within genomes, had her meticulous work ignored for nearly 4 decades, but eventually won the Nobel Prize. Why was her work so distrusted?
#Question id: 5213
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Which of the following is a major distinction between a transposon and a retrotransposon?
#Question id: 5214
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
What is the most probable explanation for the continued presence of pseudogenes in a genome such as our own?