Selected Tag: #gene
  • Compare representative mitochondrial genomes (human, plants, algae) in terms of gene content, organization, and expression.
  • Identify and distinguish intervening sequences (group I introns, group II introns, twintrons, split intron, inteins), using key structural and mechanistic features.
  • Identify key evidences/arguments for hypothesis on the origin/evolution of genes from an RNA world.
  • Interpret features of bacterial genome organization: non-random positioning and orientation of certain genes in relationship to overlapping rounds of genome replication.
  • Interpret plasmid maintenance and evolution in terms of plasmid genes (poison-antidote mechanism).
  • Interpret genetic mobility of introns and inteins, by comparing mechanisms of intron/intein homing and transposition.
  • Identify steps and mechanisms of evolutionary gene transfer from organelle genomes to nuclear genome.