An individual carries a somatic mutation that changes a glutamic acid codon to a lysine codon [GAA (GIu) > AAA (Lys)]. Prior to acquiring this mutation, the individual had been exposed to EMS, proflavin, 5′-bromouracil, and X-rays.  Which of these agents would be the most likely to have caused this somatic mutation?

The average thorax in a Drosophila population is 1.01 mm.  You want to practice selective breeding to obtain larger flies.  To do so, you choose 10 parents (5 males and 5 females) whose average thorax length is 1.10.  You mate them to produce 30 offspring whose average thorax length is 1.08.  Calculate the realized heritability of thorax length in this group of flies.  

There are multiple types of plasmid vectors for cloning experiments.  Which of the following vectors would you use if you wanted to express a eukaryotic gene in sheep milk?

Which of the following statements is incorrect about cancer?

An ncRNA may have the following functions: scaffold, guide, ribozyme, blocker and/or decoy.  Which of the function(s) is/are exhibited by crRNA? 

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When mice carrying the Avy allele exhibit a yellow coat, this phenotype is thought to be caused by

What phase of qPCR (exponential, linear, or plateau) is analyzed to quantitate the amount of starting template DNA (or RNA)?  

With regard to lac operon regulation via catabolite activation protein (CAP), which of the following statements is correct in the absence of glucose?

Gene regulation is the phenomenon in which the level of gene expression can vary under different conditions.  Which of the following statements is not a benefit of gene regulation in bacteria?