#Question id: 5220
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
In comparing the genomes of humans and those of other higher primates, it is seen that humans have a large metacentric pair we call chromosome #2 among our 46 chromosomes, while the other primates of this group have 48 chromosomes and any pair like the human #2 pair is not present; instead the primate groups each have two pairs of midsize acrocentric chromosomes. What is the most likely explanation?
#Question id: 5217
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
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?
#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: 5206
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
A microarray known as a GeneChip, with most now known human protein coding sequences, has recently been developed to aid in the study of human cancer by first comparing twothree subsets of cancer subtypes. What kind of information might be gleaned from this GeneChip to aid in cancer prevention?
#Question id: 5204
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
Bioinformatics can be used to scan sequences for probable genes looking for start and stop sites for transcription and for translation, for probable splice sites, and for sequences known to be found in other known genes. Such sequences containing these elements are called
#Question id: 5203
#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
The biggest problem with the shotgun technique is its tendency to underestimate the size of the genome. Which of the following might best account for this?