#Question id: 5212
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
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 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
Which of the following is a major distinction between a transposon and a retrotransposon?
#Question id: 5214
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
What is the most probable explanation for the continued presence of pseudogenes in a genome such as our own?
#Question id: 5215
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
What is it about short tandem repeat DNA that makes it useful for DNA fingerprinting?
#Question id: 5216
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
Alu elements account for about 10% of the human genome. What does this mean?
#Question id: 5217
#Unit 9. Evolution & Diversity of Life Forms
Multigene families include two or more nearly identical genes or genes sharing nearly identical sequences. A classical example is the set of genes for globin molecules, including genes on human chromosomes 11 and 16. How might identical and obviously duplicated gene sequences have gotten from one chromosome to another?