Question 1
Mutational bias leads to increased ____ content, and gene conversion bias tends to increase ____ content of a genome.
◦ AT; GC
◦ GC, AT
◦ GT, AC
◦ AC, GT
◦ GA, CT
Question 2
Obligate intracellular parasites live within a eukaryotic host and have lost nonessential genes. This defines the minimum number of functions needed to construct a cell. The smallest such genome found to date encodes:
◦ about 470 genes.
◦ about 900 genes.
◦ about 1500 genes.
◦ about 7400 genes.
◦ about 20,500 genes.