#Question id: 15817
#SCPH01 Biochemistry
You and your lab partner have isolated 20 new mutant yeast strains that are defective in synthesis of threonine, an amino acid. These Thr- mutants do not grow on minimal medium, but they do grow on minimal medium supplemented with threonine. Ten of your Thr- mutants (numbered 1 through 10) were isolated in a strain of mating type a (MAT a). The other 10 Thrmutants (numbered 11 through 20) were isolated in a strain of mating type α (MAT α). You and your lab partner cross each of the MAT a strains to each of the MAT α strains, and you include crosses to the appropriate wild-type strains. Your experimental observations are shown in the table below, where (-) indicates diploids that did not grow on minimal medium and (+) indicates diploids that did grow on minimal medium
Based on these experiments, what is the minimum number of genes required for threonine synthesis?
#Question id: 19222
#SCPH28 | Zoology
#Question id: 13076
#SCPH05 I Biotechnology
Restriction fragment length polymorphism denotes that a
single restriction enzyme produces fragments of different lengths from the same
stretch of genomic DNA of different strains of a species or from different
related species. RFLPs are detected as follows:
i. Large
molecular weight genomic DNA is isolated from several strains or related
species;
ii. The
fragments in these digests are separated through electrophoresis
iii. These
'DNAs are then digested with a selected restriction enzyme
iv. Exposed
to a suitably radio-labelled appropriate DNA probe under conditions favouring
DNA: DNA hybridization
v. The
resulting gel lanes are transferred and fixed to a suitable solid support and
vi. The free
probes are removed
vii. The fragments to which the probe has hybridized are detected by filming them as distinct bands on a suitable photofilm through autoradiography.
#Question id: 15233
#SCPH28 | Zoology
#Question id: 20846
#SCPH28 | Zoology