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what are the three features common to all transposable elements? |
Flanking direct repeats, inverted terminal repeats, coding sequence |
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what is the transposable elements discovered in corn by B. McClintock? |
Ac/Ds |
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What is the same of the enzyme involved in transposition by DNA intermediates? |
Transposase |
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What is the same of the enzyme involved in transposition by RNA intermediates? |
Reverse Transcriptase |
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The other name for transposable elements using RNA intermediates |
Retrotransposon |
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Bacterial transposable elements containing antibiotic resistance genes are also called |
Transposon |
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Antibiotic resistance associated with transposable elements can be passed on from one species of bacteria to another using |
horizontal transmission |
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Transposable elements that can move by themselves |
Autonomous |
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Transposable elements that cannot move by themselves |
Non-Autonomous |
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Variegation in corn kernels is due to transposition happening at different times during |
development |
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What are the Drosophila transposable elements. |
P-element and copia |
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The genetic phenomenon leading to reduced progeny and high mutation rate in Drosophila |
Hybrid dysgenesis |
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The transposable element responsible for hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila. |
P-element |
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P-element transposition is prevented due to the presence of this protein in the cytoplasm. |
Repressor |
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The simplest bacterial transposable elements are also called... |
insertion sequences. |
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Transposable elements can lead to most chromosome rearrangements when two elements that are close by undergoing _____ and _______. |
mispairing and unequal crossing over |
