Lecture 22

Question 1

What is genome?

Answer 1

all genes in an organism

Question 2

What is genomics?

Answer 2

studying all the genes of an organism at once

Question 3

What is __ome?

Answer 3

Latin for many

Question 4

Scientists studied many genomes. What were the model organisms studied in 1997 and 2002?

Answer 4

E coli

Mice

Question 5

Scientists studied many genomes. What were the pathogenic organisms studied in 2003 and 2002?

Answer 5

B. anthracis/anthrax

Plasmodium/malaria

Question 6

Scientists studied many genomes. What were the agricultural organisms studied in 2004 and 2005?

Answer 6

chickens

rice

Question 7

Scientists studied many genomes. What were the familiar organisms studied in 2005 and 2007?

Answer 7

dogs

cats

Question 8

When did the human genome project begin? What method was used? When was it completed?

Answer 8

1990

used automated sanger sequencing

2003

Question 9

What organism number were humans in the human genome project? What was the planned and actual budget? When were the preliminary results published?

Answer 9

44th

3B vs 2.7B

2001

Question 10

What are the 4 major findings of the human genome project?

Answer 10

humans have 20 000 protein coding genes
1% exons
99% introns and intergenic DNA
humans share genes with all life, eukaryotes, animals, vertebrates

Question 11

What is metagenomics?

Answer 11

Sequencing all DNA in an environment to identify which species are present

Question 12

What are the 2 current human sequencing?

Answer 12

medical diagnosis (sequencing a patient’s DNA to detect mutations

archaeology (ancient DNA sequencing revels ancestry traits, diseases)