Describe what an ITS region is in the context of prokaryotes, and explain the significance of the ITS region for microbial ecology
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ITS region is the nucleotides between the 16S and 23S rDNA. Differences in ITS region length among microbes are commonly exploited in the ARISA method to observe community composition. They are also sequenced when 16S rDNA sequencing cannot resolve closely related microorganisms.
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microfilaments inside the cell to the ECM outside the cell are
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).