Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
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When pairs of human 23 and mouse 20 homologs are compared, the genes located on either side also tend to be homologs. This relationship is called synteny
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Synteny provides a framework in which conservation of homologous genes and gene order is identified between genomes of different species
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A functional gene can be located through the use of an expressed sequence tag (EST)
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Animal cells have small mitochondrial genomes 16.6 kb in mammals. There are several hundred mitochondria per cell and each mitochondrion has multiple copies of the DNA.