At the Beginning of This Century, There Was a General

question 58

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. Many people were surprised that the number of protein-coding sequences was much smaller than they had expected. Which of the following types of DNA make up the rest of the human genome?

• A) DNA that consists of histone coding sequences
• B) DNA that is translated directly without being transcribed
• C) non-protein-coding DNA that is transcribed into several kinds of small RNAs with biological function
• D) non-protein-coding DNA that serves as binding sites for reverse transcriptase

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Definitions:

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