How are open reading frames identified in a genome?
A) promoters
B) start and stop codons
C) transposons
D) single-nucleotide polymorphisms
E) short tandem repeats
B) start and stop codons
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(1) in 36 identical twin pairs, both showed adult-onset diabetes (2) in 40 identical twin pairs, only one showed adult-onset diabetes (3) in 336 identical twin pairs, neither showed adult-onset diabetes Items (1) and (2) can be used to calculate concordance as follows: 36/(36 + 40) x 100 = 47%. A. true B. false
Trichomoniasis is a bacterial infection that is sexually transmitted; chronic infection often results in blindness, damage to the nervous system, and eventually death
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
________ is/are able to degrade infecting bacteriophage DNA, thus protecting the host cell.
A. Restriction endonucleases B. Protection exonucleases C. Modification methylases D. Lysozyme
Agglutination tests make use of the fact that
A) antibodies have two antigen-binding sites and will cause clumping when bound to antigen. B) the presence of antibodies in a patient's serum will prevent viral infection of cells in culture. C) a reporter enzyme can be bound to an antibody to provide a visual change with a positive test. D) antibodies bound to antigen will precipitate in a gel matrix. E) T cells will release interferon-gamma during certain infections.