What is a puff on a polytene chromosome? a highly condensed region of DNA a region containing the centromere a region of very high transcription activity all of the other answers are correct a heterochromatic region

What is a puff on a polytene chromosome? a highly condensed region of DNA a region containing the centromere a region of very high transcription activity all of the other answers are correct a heterochromatic region

Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)

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Author:Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr

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Chapter9: From Dna To Protein

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1SQ: A chromosome contains many different genes that are transcribed into different ___ . a. proteins b....

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a highly condensed region of DNA

a region containing the centromere

a region of very high transcription activity

all of the other answers are correct

a heterochromatic region

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