Question

1) What do researchers use to label the VNTRs?

Select one:

a. radioactive probes

b. restriction enzymes

c. fluorescent primers

d. polymorphisms

2) Current FBI fingerprints test for 13 STRs and a sex marker.

Select one:

True

False

3) Approximately how many genes do humans have?

Select one:

a. 200

b. 20,000

c. 200,000

d. 2000

4) What is the word for the new science of studying all the genes of an organism?

Select one:

a. epigenetics

b. genomics

c. microarrays

d. hybridization

5) Each spot on a microarray represents:

Select one:

a. one genome

b. one chromosome

c. one cancer cell

d. one gene

6) What makes the mRNA different from the other types of RNA?

Select one:

a. poly-G tail

b. poly-T beads

c. poly-A tail

d. poly-T tail

7) What enzyme is used to attach different colors of stained nucleotides to create a DNA molecule along the mRNA?

Select one:

a. reverse transcriptase

b. fluorescent primer

c. restriction enzyme

d. radioactive probe