Polymorphisms
Common differences in peoples genes e.g. phenotype
What adds sticky ends?
Endonucleases
Why do we make sticky ends?
To add genes into plasmids
What do restriction enzymes do?
Cut DNA for electrophoresis
What is sense and anti-sense?
The region that is translated and the template strand
What is a LINE?
Long interspersed element
What do LINE and SINE do?
Move around the genome as they are non-coding sequences left from no longer functioning viruses
What is reverse transcriptase?
Doing this on mRNA to figure out the complimentary DNA strand