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When a phenotype associated with a genotype is only expressed in a particular subset of environments, this condition is called
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Environmental variance
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A trait in which the possible phenotypes have range from one extreme to the other rather than falling into discrete classes is called a ____________
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Continuous trait
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Copies of a gene that result from duplication within the lineage of a species are ____________
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Paralogs
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Copies of a gene that result from speciation events ____________
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Orthologs
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Sewell Wright defined this quantity, _________, as the probability two alleles at a locus in an individual are identical by descent.
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Inbreeding coefficient, F
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____________ is defined as the genotypic variance expressed as a proportion of the total phenotypic variance.
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Broad sense heritability
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The phylogenetic method for estimating the ancestral history of a set of protein or DNA sequences at which step, the taxa separated by the smallest distance are combined is _____________
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Distance method
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__________refers to the number of consecutive nucleotides in a template strand of nucleic acid that are traversed before a DNA polymerase or an RNA polymerase detaches from the template.
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Processivity
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An organism that contains two genetically different types of cells is a ______________________.
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Somatic mosaic
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The enzymatic splitting of pyrimidine dimers produced in DNA by ultraviolet light is the DNA repair process of ____________.
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Photoreactivation
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Transposable elements that move strictly via a DNA intermediate are called ____________
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Cut and Paste elements
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An enzyme that makes complementary DNA from a single-stranded RNA template.
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Reverse transcriptase
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Two DNA molecules assembled by in vitro manipulations for the purpose of generating a novel organism with desired characteristics is _____________.
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Recombinant DNA
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A recombinant DNA plasmid based on the Fertility Factor, in which a large fragment of DNA (>300kb) has been ligated into the vector, making possible its replication and segregation in bacterial cells. This vector is referred to as ________________
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Bacterial artificial chromosome
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In a bacterial operon under negative control, the inactive form of the repressor; the inactive form of the repressor must bind with a co-repressor molecule. What is the inactive form of the repressor?
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Aporepressor
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An enzyme that cleaves lactose into its glucose and galactose subunits, often used as a reporter in the genetic analysis of regulatory regions.
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Beta-Galactosidase
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In the lactose operon of E. coli, a type of mutant in which transcription takes place continuously.
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constitutive
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In bacteria, a group of adjacent genes transcribed together from a single promoter.
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Operon
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The binding site for prokaryotic RNA polymerase
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Promoter
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Protein complexes that influence transcription rates by modifying the association between DNA and nucleosomes
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Chromatin-remodeling complexes
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