At the Beginning of This Century There Was a General

question 1

Multiple Choice

At the beginning of this century there was a general announcement regarding the sequencing of the human genome and the genomes of many other multicellular eukaryotes. There was surprise expressed by many that the number of protein-coding sequences was much smaller than they had expected. Which of the following could account for most of the rest?

• A) "junk" DNA that serves no possible purpose
• B) rRNA and tRNA coding sequences
• C) DNA that is translated directly without being transcribed
• D) non-protein-coding DNA that is transcribed into several kinds of small RNAs with biological function
• E) non-protein-coding DNA that is transcribed into several kinds of small RNAs without biological function

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