Which of the following constitute about 10-20% of total circular RNA?
m-RNA
r -RNA
t-RNA
hn -RNA
C.
t-RNA
Transfer RNA (t-RNA) constitute about 10-20% of total cellular RNA. Since t-RNA are difficult to be separated by ultra- centrifugation, they are also called as soluble RNA (s-RNA).
Mutations which alter nucleotide sequence within a gene are :
frame shift mutations
base pair substitutions
both 'a' and 'b'
none of these
Which organism was used by Beadle and Tatum to proposed one gene-one enzyme hypothesis ?
E. coli
Nostoc
Drosophila
Neurospora
A point mutation comprising the substitution of a purine by pyrimidine is called
transition
translocation
deletion
transversion