How Do Transposable Elements and Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) Differ

question 13

Multiple Choice

How do transposable elements and short tandem repeats (STRs) differ?

• A) STRs occur within exons; transposable elements occur within introns.
• B) STRs occur within introns; transposable elements occur within exons.
• C) STRs make up only a small percentage of a given genome while transposable elements often make up larger parts of a given genome.
• D) The repeated unit in STRs is much larger than the repeated unit of transposable elements.

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Definitions:

Independent

A term indicating that two variables or events have no association and the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of occurrence of the other.

Standard Deviations

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Independent

A characteristic of variables in which the value of one variable does not depend on or influence the value of another variable within the context of statistical analysis or experimental design.

Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how much the values deviate from the mean.