Chapter 21.4 Notecards

Question 1

Systems biology

Answer 1

Expression of many genes and functioning of many different proteins

Question 2

Bioinformatics

Answer 2

Use of computers, mathematical tools, and statistical techniques to record, store and analyze biological information

Question 3

Data mining

Answer 3

Extraction of useful info and previously unknown relationships from sequence files and large databases

Question 4

Homologous genes

Answer 4

Genes that have really similar functions usually

-only differ because of many mutations

Question 5

Orthologs

Answer 5

Homologous genes in different species

Question 6

Paralogs

Answer 6

Homologous genes in the same species

Question 7

BLAST

Answer 7

System that locates homologous gene sequences in large databases

Question 8

Conceptual translation

Answer 8

Use of computer program to translate a DNA sequence into an amino acid sequence
-reading frame without stop codons is most likely to be correct