Suppose a Scientist Wants to Identify a Gene in a Particular

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Essay

Suppose a scientist wants to identify a gene in a particular plant species by transposon tagging, but he is initially stumped because he finds no active transposons. He hypothesizes, however, that he can introduce a transposon from another plant species. Why might this be possible?

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Definitions:

Implicit Memory

Unconscious retention and recollection of past experiences.

Procedural Memory

A type of long-term memory that enables people to perform tasks without conscious awareness of having learned them.

Semantic Network

A conceptual structure used in cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence which represents semantic relations between concepts in a network.

Nodes

Points in a network or system where lines or pathways intersect or branch.