If telomeres are normally shortened after each round of replication in somatic cells , what prediction would you make about the length of telomeres in Dolly, the first cloned sheep?

What information would you need to tell whether the leading and lagging strands in yeast are replicated with equal fidelity?

The occurrence of multiple transposons within the genome oforganisms has been suggested as a possible cause of chromosomalrearrangements such as deletions, translocations, and inversions.How could the occurrence of transposons promote these types ofstructural rearrangements?

Why do human germ cells (cells that undergo meiosis to produce gametes) express the enzyme telomerase?

You are studying a small eukaryotic gene of about 2000 bp in length. About how many copies of histone H4 would you expect to find along this region of the chromosome?

Polytene chromosomes are giant chromosomes found in cells of the salivary glands of larval fruit flies and some other organisms. Polytene chromosomes arise when repeated rounds of replication occur without cell division, producing thousands of copies of DNA that lie side by side. Why do polytene chromosomes occur in the cells of salivary glands of larval fruit flies, but not in other tissues? Propose some possible reasons.