Q.1
Computational resources can facilitate the analysis of bacterial genomes.
  • a) True
  • b) False
Q.2
Telomeres hold newly replicated daughter chromosomes together.
  • a) True
  • b) False
Q.3
Prokaryotic genomes commonly have tandem repeats of sequences and include introns in protein-coding genes.
  • a) True
  • b) False
Q.4
The sequences of satellite DNA fall into different types, each with a different repeat unit of length _____
  • a) 5–400 Mbp
  • b) 3–300 kbp
  • c) 6–900 Mbp
  • d) 5–200 bp
Q.5
Most of the repetitive DNA is found near the open ends of chromosomes.
  • a) True
  • b) False
Q.6
Minisatellites are made up of repeat units of up to ____ and microsatellites compose of repeat units of ____ or less.
  • a) 25 bp, 10 bp
  • b) 70 bp, 6 bp
  • c) 80 bp, 9 bp
  • d) 25 bp, 4 bp
Q.7
In nondividing cells, a mixture of lightly and darkly stained chromosomal regions called euchromatin and heterochromatin respectively, are observed.
  • a) True
  • b) False
Q.8
Genes that are transcribed are located in the ______
  • a) euchromatin
  • b) heterochromatin
  • c) heterochromatin and euchromatin
  • d) tightly bound DNA
Q.9
______ can comprise a large proportion of the eukaryotic genome as ______
  • a) transposable elements, single copy sequences
  • b) transposable elements, repetitive sequences
  • c) macrosatellite DNA elements, single copy sequences
  • d) satellite DNA elements, single copy sequences
Q.10
(Transposable Elements) TEs have the potential to _____ in number until they comprise a ____ proportion of the genome sequence.
  • a) decrease, large
  • b) decrease, micro
  • c) increase, micro
  • d) increase, large
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