Brock Biology of Microorganisms (14th Edition)
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780321897398
Author: Michael T. Madigan, John M. Martinko, Kelly S. Bender, Daniel H. Buckley, David A. Stahl, Thomas Brock
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 6, Problem 14RQ
What is the major difference in how duplications have contributed to the evolution of the genomes of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?
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Brock Biology of Microorganisms (14th Edition)
Ch. 6.1 - Prob. 1MQCh. 6.1 - Prob. 2MQCh. 6.2 - Prob. 1MQCh. 6.2 - Prob. 2MQCh. 6.2 - Prob. 3MQCh. 6.3 - Prob. 1MQCh. 6.3 - Prob. 2MQCh. 6.3 - What is the major problem in identifying genes...Ch. 6.4 - Prob. 1MQCh. 6.4 - Prob. 2MQ
Ch. 6.4 - Prob. 3MQCh. 6.4 - Prob. 4MQCh. 6.5 - Prob. 1MQCh. 6.5 - Prob. 2MQCh. 6.5 - Prob. 3MQCh. 6.6 - Prob. 1MQCh. 6.6 - Prob. 2MQCh. 6.6 - Prob. 3MQCh. 6.6 - Prob. 4MQCh. 6.7 - Prob. 1MQCh. 6.7 - Prob. 2MQCh. 6.7 - Prob. 3MQCh. 6.8 - Why is the term proteome ambiguous, whereas the...Ch. 6.8 - Prob. 2MQCh. 6.8 - Prob. 3MQCh. 6.9 - Prob. 1MQCh. 6.9 - What is a secondary metabolite?Ch. 6.9 - Prob. 3MQCh. 6.10 - Prob. 1MQCh. 6.10 - How is a metagenome analyzed?Ch. 6.10 - How do the human microbiome and mycobiome differ?
Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 1MQCh. 6.11 - Prob. 2MQCh. 6.11 - Prob. 3MQCh. 6.12 - Which class of genes is rarely transferred...Ch. 6.12 - List the major mechanisms by which horizontal gene...Ch. 6.12 - How might transposons be especially important in...Ch. 6.13 - Prob. 1MQCh. 6.13 - Prob. 2MQCh. 6.13 - Prob. 3MQCh. 6 - Prob. 1RQCh. 6 - Prob. 2RQCh. 6 - Prob. 3RQCh. 6 - Prob. 4RQCh. 6 - As a proportion of the total genome, which class...Ch. 6 - Prob. 6RQCh. 6 - Prob. 7RQCh. 6 - Prob. 8RQCh. 6 - Prob. 9RQCh. 6 - Prob. 10RQCh. 6 - Prob. 11RQCh. 6 - Prob. 12RQCh. 6 - Prob. 13RQCh. 6 - What is the major difference in how duplications...Ch. 6 - Explain how horizontally transferred genes can be...Ch. 6 - Prob. 16RQCh. 6 - Explain how chromosomal islands might move between...Ch. 6 - Prob. 18RQCh. 6 - Apart from genome size, what factors make complete...Ch. 6 - Describe how one might determine which proteins In...Ch. 6 - The gene encoding the beta subunit of RNA...
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