#Question id: 2767
#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
Drosophila is considered a model system because it is quite easy to create transgenic lines harboring a variety of different genes. As a Drosophila geneticist, which one of the following is a DNA transposon that you would exploit to create a transgenic line?
#Question id: 2768
#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
All the following steps are performed by the enzyme transposase during transposition of bacterial insertion sequences except
#Question id: 2769
#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
Which of the following is not a mobile DNA element?
#Question id: 2770
#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
Which of the following mobile elements is a retrotransposon?
#Question id: 2771
#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
For SINES (short interspersed elements), which of the following is correct
a. are approximately 300 base pairs long
b. are LTRs containing retrotransposons.
c. are present in over 1 million copies in the human genome.
#Question id: 2772
#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
Mobile DNA elements likely contributed to the evolution of higher organisms by the