The diagram below shows the inheritance of a plasmid (small…
The diagram below shows the inheritance of a plasmid (small circle, dashed line is the bacterial genome) through 3 generations of bacterial growth. Explain why only a single cell in generation 3 has a plasmid. How could you alter the plasmid DNA to ensure that every cell in generation 3 inherits a copy?
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Further investigation of your cool alien life form reveals it contains a DNA polymerase that has an error rate of 1 mistake in every 106 bases copied. However, the overall mutation rate is much lower. This is most likely because:
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You have recently discovered an alien life form and your research reveals that it has linear chromosomes with the following repeated sequence at the telomeres: 5’-TTAGGCATTAGGCA – 3’. What sequence do you expect to find in the telomerase RNA?
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