Some of the useful applications of genetic engineering include (select all that apply)A) bacteria that can digest oil in an oil spill.B) growing glyphosate-resistant cotton.C) development of hybrid corn to increase yield.D) creating Golden Rice.
What will be an ideal response?
A, B, D
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You are analyzing a human pedigree for a new disease and discover that the disease occurs with the same frequency in both sexes and that 25% of the children from two unaffected heterozygous parents have the disease
This disease is displaying ____ inheritance. A. autosomal recessive B. autosomal dominant C. sex-linked recessive D. sex-linked dominant
Assume that a given plasmid vector to be used in a cloning experiment contains 4000 base pairs of DNA
Assume also that the restriction endonuclease Cuj cuts this plasmid at the following sites (starting from an arbitrary zero point): 1000, 1500, and 3000. Given complete digestion of the plasmid with the endonuclease so that only linear fragments are produced, what sizes of DNA are expected?
What is a major difference between eukaryotic DNA replication and prokaryotic DNA replication?
A) Prokaryotic replication does not require a primer. B) Prokaryotic chromosomes have a single origin of replication, while eukaryotic chromosomes have multiple origins of replication. C) DNA replication in prokaryotic cells is conservative. DNA replication in eukaryotic cells is semi-conservative. D) DNA polymerases of prokaryotes can add nucleotides to both and ends of DNA strands, while those of eukaryotes function only in the ? direction.
E. coli uses which of the following enzymes to regulate membrane fluidity?
A) glucose-6-phosphatase B) desaturase C) fatty acid convertase D) gangliosidase E) kinase