Explain how transposable elements can cause themovement of genes that are not part of the transposable element.

Q: describe how Transposons Can Be Used asGene-Tagging Mutagens

A: Mutagens are chemical or physical agents which change a material's genetics and cause more mutation…

Q: Describe how P elements are used to producetransgenic Drosophila.

A: Genetics is a branch of science that deals in the study of genes, heredity, and genetic variation of…

Q: list of mutgenes caused by transversions?

A: Mutation is any  change or demage  to DNA gene which indirectly alters the forms of proteins being…

Q: Discuss the problems associated with the expression of foreign genes in E.coli.

A: BASIC INFORMATION TRANSGENE It is a gene which has been introduced with the help of genetic…

Q: Describe the molecular steps by which polycomb groups cause epigenetic gene silencing.

A: Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are members of the protein family that were initially discovered in…

Q: Give an example of where transposable elements have had a beneficial effect on an organism or an…

A: Transposable elements or transposons are sequence of DNA which can jump from one location to other…

Q: Explain the primary mechanisms of each of the threetypes of mutagens

A: Step 1 Mutagenesis is the procedure of causing mutation by a number of physical, biological, or…

Q: Describe the organization of sequences within different types of transposable elements.

A: Transposable elements are the sequences in the genome that can move within the genome from one…

Q: Explain the difference between Class I and Class II transposable elementts.

A: DNA is the genetic material . Most of the DNA is not actually coding for proteins .

Q: Explain the mechanism for increasing DNA-transposon copy number.

A: Transposable substances are kind of genetic units that are mobile. They exhibit higher diversity in…

Q: Describe the molecular steps by which polycomb group complexescause epigenetic gene silencing.

A: The PcG protein complex (Polycomb group) is one of the two protein complexes involved in the…

Q: Describe how DNA methylation is heritable.

A: DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) methylation involves the addition of methyl groups to cytosine bases…

Q: Define the Transposable Elements in the Human Genome ?

A: Almost 40 million transposable components (TES) contributing around 44% of length of genome are…

Q: Discuss the effects of transposable elements on gene function.

A: Transposable elements also known as jumping genes these are short sequences of DNA that have the…

Q: Explain how cells prevent excess transposable elementmobilization

A: Transposable elements (TEs) are the small segments of DNA that can move from one position to other…

Q: Explain how the VIN3/PRC2 complex specifically binds to theFLC gene.

A: A gene is a basic unit of heredity.  FLC gene is Flowering Locus C. It is a MADS-box gene. MADS-box…

Q: Many genes generate different products depending on the type of cell expressing the gene. How is…

A: The process of generation of different protein products from the same pre-mRNA transcript is called…

Q: What mechanisms are in place to ensure that genetic informationis accurately expressed?

A: Gene expression: [accuracy]                          The process by which the genetic code, the…

Q: Determine the 17 b p primers that can be used to locate the gene into which the transposon is…

A: The genes are a series of nucleotides found on chromosomes that code for a particular protein that…

Q: Explain how DNA methylation is heritable.

A: DNA methylation is the structural modification in the DNA that is done by the covalently addition of…

Q: Describe the molecular aspects of the storage, expression, and transmission of genetic information.

A: Genetic information is the hereditary information that is stored in our genes in the form of…

Q: Discuss transposable elements in the human genomeand their mobility.

A: The genome of an organism is defined as the whole heredity information encoded in the genetic…

Q: .In what ways can insertion of a transposon affect the expression of genes in the neighborhood of…

A: More than half of our DNA sequences consist of jumping genes or transposons which move around the…

Q: Describe the effect of the deletion on co-transformation of pure and pepN genes that are isolated…

A: Transformation is a process of transforming the genes of one strain and then transferring it to…

Q: Explain how the function of transposable elements might account fortheir prevalence in human…

A: Transposable elements, also known as jumping genes are short segments of DNA, which have special…

Q: describe some ways that a gene can be turned on oroff;

A: Genes are DNA  sequences which forms the basic physical and functional unit of hereditary. Genes…

Q: Describe how transposable elements alter the genome

A: Transposable element also known as the jumping gene is a DNA sequence that is capable to change its…

Q: Describe the difference in the effects of a mutation in a gap gene versus one in a pair-rule gene.

A: The genes consist of hereditary information in the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences and is…

Q: Define the product of the MT2A gene ?

A: Chromosome is a genetic material made up of two DNA strands. DNA is a polynucleotide that stores…

Q: Define the purpose of producing many copies of the gene’sencoded protein in a host cell ?

A: In a single gene, information for making specific protein is encoded. Genes are long, consists of…

Q: What is the Use of a promoterless lacZ gene?

A: In prokaryotes, the DNA-binding protein controls the expression and function of genes by controlling…

Q: In the fX174 genome, describe the difference between how thegene B and gene A* proteins are made

A: fX174:- Craig venter and his group reported the genome of fX174 in in-vitro conditions. It is a…

Q: describe Deletion-insertion polymorphisms (DIPs)

A: Polymorphism: Many forms of a allele is termed as polymorphism. The polymorphism leads to the…

Q: Define transposable element

A: Transposable elements are present in the DNA of an organism that can cause mutations and alter the…

Q: Explain how exon shuffling can be due to unequal homologous recombination.

A: Exon shuffling is defined as a molecular process for the arrangement of new genes. It is a cycle…

Q: Explain how the presence of tryptophan favors the formation of the 3–4 stem-loop.

A: The stem-loop, an intramolecular base pairing, is the pattern that occurs commonly in the RNA or…

Q: explain the statement Transposons can move genes to newchromosomal locations.

A: Transposons are referred to as chromosomal segments which can undergo transposition.

Q: Briefly explain how or why making a region of DNA heterochromatic results in little or no expression…

A: DNA consists of two regions euchromatin and heterochromatin. heterochromatin are darkly stained…

Q: explain about the  Transposable elements in bacteria

A: Bacteria are unicellular microorganisms with double stranded, circular deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)…

Q: explain the  Molecular Mechanisms That Alter DNASequence

A: DNA is a double-stranded polymer made up of sequence nucleotides that stores the genetic information…

Q: which specifies an inactive ASIP protein, and for the Kb allele of gene K, whose product is a…

A: ASIP (Agouti signaling protein) is an antagonist of MC1R (Melanocortin 1 receptor). MC1R is a G…

Q: What is a common proximal-promoter element ?

A: Carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids are the different macromolecules that are present in…

Q: Describe CRISPR/Cas9 and how it is used to modifygenomes.

A: CRISPR/Cas9:  CRISPR technology is a simple yet powerful tool for editing genomes. It allows…

Q: Mutations outside the coding sequences can modify geneexpression by altering the amount, time, or…

A: Mutations are defined as the change in the sequence of DNA of an organism due to any environmental…

Q: Explain Sex-specific splicing of the primary fru transcript.?

A: Drosophila melanogaster is a common fruit fly. It is most common subject used in majority of genetic…

Q: Briefly state the function of each of the lettered sites on the outlined gene below. +1 ТАТА Coding…

A: DNA ( Deoxyribonucleic acid ) is two stranded helical / ladder like structure which act as genetic…

Q: Explain Transposable Elements in the Human Genome?

A: TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS:- The process by which a gene moves from one place to another in the genome is…

Mitochondrial Mutations

A mitochondrion is a cellular organelle that serves as the site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate). It is a double-membrane-bound organelle and is only present in eukaryotic cells.