Chapter 6 Exploring Evolution and Bioinformatics. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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Matching Questions Use the following to answer questions 1-10: Choose the correct answer from the list below. Not all of the answers will be used. a) BLAST b) glutamine to asparagine c) orthologs... d) alignment e) convergent evolution f) paralogs g) gap h) evolutionary tree i) sequence templates j) PCR k) glycine to tryptophan l) conservative 1 ____________ Homologs that perform similar or identical functions. Ans: c Section: Introduction 2 ____________ Homologs from the same organism that perform different functions. Ans: f Section: Introduction 3 An amino acid substitution to another of similar size and charge is called a ____________ substitution. Ans: l Section: 6.2 4 ____________ Regions of a protein, critical to three-dimensional structure, that are conserved. Ans: i Section: 6.1 5 ____________ A database search procedure used to find homologous sequences in proteins. Ans: a Section: 6.3 [Show More]

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