What is the smallest number of genes present in any known organism?

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: The free-living parasitic bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium has 470 genes.

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a. True b. False

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The coupled G protein most likely interacts with this receptor _____

A) at the NH3 end B) at the COO– end C) along the exterior margin D) at the loop between H5 and H6

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An eight-year-old girl has scabs and pus-filled vesicles on her face and throat. Three weeks earlier she had visited her grandmother, who had shingles. What infection does the eight-year-old have?

A) chickenpox B) measles C) fever blisters D) scabies E) rubella

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