DNA fingerprinting is now widely used to tie a particular suspect to the DNA samples found at a crime scene. What benefits can be derived from this technology in fighting crime?
A) "Persons of interest" can be excluded more rapidly as suspects, so police can focus on other leads.
B) A jailed convict can be proven to have no connection to evidence found at a crime scene.
C) Solid matches can aid a district attorney's case in proving guilt to a jury.
D) All of the above are true.
D
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As an adult who never developed chickenpox infection as a child, you elect to receive the protective vaccine against this pathogen at the age of 35. This vaccine will stimulate
A. latency. B. an anamnestic response. C. a secondary immune response. D. a primary immune response.
You have been asked to design a synthetic DNA motif, able to bind transcriptional regulatory proteins. The location on this motif that you will design for protein binding is the
A. sugar backbone of the DNA double helix. B. phosphate backbone of the DNA double helix. C. available hydrogen-bonds of bases in single-stranded DNA. D. major groove of the DNA double helix. E. minor groove of the DNA double helix.
In eukaryotes, a major difference between the core and regulatory promoters is?
a. the regulatory promoter is closer to +1 b. RNA polymerase binds to the regulatory promoter c. the core promoter is transcribed into RNA and the regulatory promoter is not d. RNA polymerase binds to the core promoter