3.8.3 Using Genome Projects

Question 1

What is the genome?

Answer 1

All the genetic material in an organism or cell

Question 2

What is the proteome?

Answer 2

All the proteins in an organism or cell

Question 3

What is the genome project process called?

Answer 3

Whole-genome shotgun sequencing

Question 4

What are the three steps of whole-genome shotgun sequencing?

Answer 4

Digestion: completed manually
Align: a computer aligns the fragments of DNA
Sequence: computer step, the computer is able to determine the base sequences

Question 5

Is all the DNA from genome projects from the same person?

Answer 5

It can be from multiple people in a population

Question 6

What are genome projects designed to do?

Answer 6

To determine the prevalence of the genome

Question 7

What are the fragments in genome sequencing aligned according to?

Answer 7

Commonly occuring base sequences

Question 8

How is the frequency of bases measured?

Answer 8

The computer looks at the overlap using an algorithm

Question 9

What does it suggest if there are overlapping fragments in every part of the sample?

Answer 9

It is something that every human has

Question 10

What is the SNP?

Answer 10

Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Where a one base mutation occurs frequently in the population