Human Genome Projects

Question 1

LINES

Answer 1

Long interspersed nuclear elements are a specific type of interspersed repeat element that encode the proteins necessary for their own replication.

Question 2

SINES

Answer 2

Short interspersed nuclear elements are a specific type of interspersed repeat element that does not encode the proteins necessary for their own replication

Question 3

Structural variation in the human genome

Answer 3

1. Interspersed repeats comprise ~45% of the human genome
2. segmental duplications comprise about 4% of the human genome
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