You Have Cloned and Sequenced a New Mouse Gene and Wish

question 43

Essay

You have cloned and sequenced a new mouse gene and wish to know whether chromatin structure may affect its transcription.You DNase treat and then run Southern analysis.In the mouse strain with hypothetical phenotype A you detect your gene,but it is not detected in DNase treated samples from the mouse strain with phenotype B.What do you suspect as the cause?

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Definitions:

Onset of Eating

Refers to the initiation or beginning of food consumption or an eating episode.

Belonging

The feeling of security and support when there is a sense of acceptance, inclusion, or identity within a group or place.

Maslow

Refers to Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory in psychology concerning human motivation.

Goal Orientation Theory

The view that achievement motivation depends on which of four goal orientations (mastery/approach, mastery/avoidance, performance/avoidance, performance/approach) an individual adopts.