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Does the string "...CATCAT..." appear in the DNA of Felis catus?
The Felis catus genome has been published, annotated, and updated quite a bit since 1996, including spans of so-called intergenic regions, which are basically scaffolding and other structures, along ...
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Does the string "...CATCAT..." appear in the DNA of Felis catus?
While Matt's answer is perfectly correct, it is important to note that the sequence $(CAT)_n$ in DNA is not restricted to cats, and you would expect to find it anywhere.
For example, searching the ...
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Is the size of the genome across species roughly the same?
Chart of C-values (the mass of DNA in a single haploid cell); there is no logical order to the groups:
[source]
Base pairs in haploid genome (some examples):
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Does the string "...CATCAT..." appear in the DNA of Felis catus?
To augment the other answers, let's compute the probability of CATCATCATCAT occurring in random DNA sequence.
Cat DNA length is 2.7 gigabases (source), and there are 4 possible bases.
For 1 CAT there ...
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Number of transcription factor genes in the human genome
Here I will assume we are talking about eukaryotic sequence specific transcription factors (ssTFs) and try to answer your first and part of the second question. There is in any case not definitive ...
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Why reference genome is a reference?
The main reason is because the genetic differences between individuals of the same species are tiny. For the vast majority of studies, they can simply be ignored.
Differences between individuals are ...
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What limits chromosomal length?
There is both an upper and lower limit which are species specific. The upper limit is caused by incomplete segregation of sister chromatids and subsequent trimming of the long arm(s). The reason for ...
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Why is it harder to sequence plant genomes than animal genomes?
The authors of this 2012 review article summarize the problem well in their introduction:
In contrast to the tremendous advances in throughput, assembling sequencing reads remains a substantial ...
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How can I find a complete human genome file?
Non-biologist here stepping in.
@swbarnes2 has a good point pinning the fact that (approx) 3Giga nucleotides to display "on a wall" (as you state) even with a good projector is gonna be a hard task.
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In percentage, how much is the human genome (DNA) similar to the mouse genome?
This question cannot be answered as simply as you put it, but it's not too much to elaborate on.
The order of the base pairs will be drastically different, but the same proteins and amino acids will ...
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Does the string "...CATCAT..." appear in the DNA of Felis catus?
So, there are a few great answers here already, but it seems nobody addressed an interesting part of your question: GEB was published in 1978 and the genome of Felis catus was not sequenced until many ...
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Why do some bacteria have most genes on the leading strand of the genome?
The pattern we see in B. subtilis is quite common in prokaryotes. The origin of replication is shown at the top of the genome diagram. DNA replication proceeds bidirectionally from this point. In the ...
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What causes cells to inactivate one X-chromosome?
Even a male cell can count the number of X chromosomes. (Lee et al. 1996; Cell 86: 83-84)
When X inactivation is getting started the two chromosomes "kiss" - a process that lasts for a couple of ...
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Is the size of the genome across species roughly the same?
It is already mentioned by canadianer that genome size differs between organisms. But what about complexity?
First we should define what complexity is: complexity can be defined as number of ...
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How can I find a complete human genome file?
but aren't there 46 chromosomes to include or are some of those
duplicates
First of all, while each person has 2 copies of each chromosome, those copies are 99% identical. So it would be a waste ...
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What is the genome size of Saffron (Crocus sativus)?
Neither NCBI nor Ensembl have a genome project listed for any crocus species, although individual ethidium bromide stained nuclei have been analyzed by flow cytometry, revealing approximately 11.4 pg ...
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Is our genome decaying (see "Genetic Entropy"), and, if so, is this evidence for our genome being "young"?
If I understand the question correctly, you are asking why random mutations (most of the non-silent ones are deleterious) cannot create information and improve the overall fitness of the organism.
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Is our genome decaying (see "Genetic Entropy"), and, if so, is this evidence for our genome being "young"?
Regarding the reference to Lynch, actually reading this paper is illuminating (http://www.pnas.org/content/107/3/961.full). What Lynch is saying with regards to degeneration is that he and others feel ...
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What is the most genetically complex organism?
Edit: I would define genetic complexity as either genome size or number of genes. Either answer or information would work.
Largest genome: Paris japonica, a rare plant. Its genome is 149,000,000,000 ...
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How Scientists sequence, assemble and annotate plant genomes?
Let's try and answer all three parts of your question.
Sequencing
The general method is the same. Sequencing is just sequencing. But as for every single sequencing, there are factors to consider and ...
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Why does polyploidy give an evolutionary advantage?
First of all I am not sure if your examples are per se correct. But they might also be an additional bonus. Secondly, I would like to refer to two articles: "Polyploidy" and "The advantages and ...
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Importance of knowing GC Content of an organism
Interesting question. The GC-content seems to evolve over time and it also seems that the GC-content of coding regions is higher than for the surrounding non-coding regions (see reference 1). If there ...
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What is the strand specificity of a reference genome?
First of all, the reference genome strand specificity is referred to as sense (positive strand) or antisense (negative strand). Now let's consider to sequencing data or FASTQ files. When we align ...
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Do all chromosomes in one human body contains same genome?
Yes, all cells contains the same genome. This is because, for a given individual, all of its cells comes from the zygote, a singular cell formed after fecondation of the maternal ovum and paternal ...
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Are there parts of DNA that do not have genes?
Most the genome is not coding for proteins. Here is a pie chart of what the human genome is made of
As you can see, only 1.5% of the human genome codes for proteins. The term gene is often a bit ...
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Giga base or Giga byte
This refers to base pairs.
File size has no particular meaning beyond practical considerations, given that it depends on the format. (For example, 2bit files use 2 bits per base, as the name ...
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Difference between NCBI's /genomes and /1000genomes
The simplest difference is the scale and range. The aim of 1000 genome project was to provide comprehensive library of human genetic variation. DNA of individuals coming from different ethnic groups, ...
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Protein-coding introns in mitochondrial genomes
Mitochondrial genomes differ greatly in size, coding potential and even whether they are circular or linear. Mammalian mitochondrial DNA is small (11–28 kbp) and intronless. However the mitochondria ...
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Understanding Contig NG50
If you arrange your contigs from longest to shortest, what is the shortest contig in the smallest subset of contigs that covers at least half the expected genome length?
An example with arbitrary ...
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