MO640 - Exercises - Molecular Biology Concepts, Setubal and Meidanis 1997 - chapter 1

Exercises marked with (*) require further reading/search beyond the suggested texts.

  1. (*) How many DNA sequences are there in GenBank? And how many in SWISS-PROT?
  2. What is the size of the human genome in base pairs?
  3. (*) Which organism related to a deadly disease endemic in Brazil has a genome with 6 chromosomes?
  4. (*) The figure below shows chromatograms for the same region of the X chromosome of a mother, a father, and their male child, not necessarily in this order. Which chromatograms could of the mother? And of the child? chromatograms for a trio
  5. Why restriction enzyme sites are usually of even length?

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