Genome Projects

Question 1

What is a genome?

Answer 1

All of the DNA in an organism

Question 2

What happens in genome projects?

Answer 2

Scientists work to determine the complete genome sequence of an organism

Question 3

What has improved technology allowed us to do?

Answer 3

Sequence the genomes of a variety of organisms

Question 4

Gene sequencing methods only work on…?

Answer 4

Fragments of DNA

Question 5

What is a proteome?

Answer 5

All the proteins an organism makes

Question 6

What is a simple organism?

Answer 6

An organism that does not have much non-coding DNA meaning it is relatively easy to determine their proteome from their genome

Question 7

What does being able to determine proteomes of bacteria and virus allow?

Answer 7

Pathogens to be monitored during outbreaks of disease

Question 8

What is a complex organism?

Answer 8

An organism that contains large sections of non-coding DNA

Question 9

What do complex regulatory genes do?

Answer 9

Determine when the genes that code for particular proteins should be turned on and off, making it more difficult to translate their genome into their proteome

Question 10

How have sequencing methods been improved?

Answer 10

More cost-effective
Done on a large scale
Automated