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#Question id: 5451

High heritability is best demonstrated in which of the following situations?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

  1. Within a wild population of clover plants, there is a very low amount of variation in the number of leaves per stem.

  2. When studying obesity in a human population, there tends to be less variation within families than across the entire population.

  3. in a study of adopted children, the children's height is much more similar to that of their biological parents than their adoptive parents.

  4. The DNR maintains records of deer shot each hunting season. In drought years, the average weight is much lower than in years of sufficient rain.

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#Question id: 2820

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Multiple mRNAs can arise from a primary transcript by use of alternative

a. splicing.      b. poly(A) sites.                      c. promoters.               d. ribosome binding sites.
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#Question id: 2821

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Which of the following is (are) encoded by multiple genes present in the human genome?

a. ribosomal RNA       b. transfer RNA                       c. histone            d. lysozyme
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#Question id: 2822

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Transposition by a bacterial insertion element

a. occurs at a frequency of approximately 1 in 10^3 cells per generation.

b. can inactivate an essential gene.    

c. is mediated through a RNA intermediate.

d. requires the enzyme transposase
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#Question id: 2823

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Transposition by a retrotransposon requires activity of which of the following enzymes?

a. RNA polymerase                b. reverse transcriptase

c. DNA methylase                  d. DNA polymerase
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#Question id: 2824

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Plant mitochondrial DNA

a. is the same size as human mitochondrial DNA.

b. encodes a 5S mitochondrial rRNA.

c. contains multiple copies that recombine with each other.

d. uses the standard genetic code.
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#Question id: 2825

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Metaphase chromosomes can be identified

a. by shape.                 

b. by the size and number of introns.

c. by banding patterns with Giemsa reagent.

d. by chromosome painting.