Which of the following constitute about 10-20% of total circular RNA?
m-RNA
r -RNA
t-RNA
hn -RNA
Jumping genes in maize were discovered by:
Hugo de Vries
T.H. Morgan
Barbara McClintock
Mendel
C.
Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock discovered mobile genetic elements or jumping genes or controlling elements or transposon or transposable genes in maize (Zea mays) plant.
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