Class12 --2014

Assignment for Wednesday

Read through the following intron sections on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_splicing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_I_catalytic_intron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_II_intron

Assignment for today

Assignments for Wednesday

Think about the question how new genes are created, and how genome size can increase. Everyone should have at least three distinct mechanisms.

Read The Evolutionary Fate and Consequences of Duplicate Genes

Discussion of gene plot via blast (slides with examples)

Discuss gene and genome rearrangements.

How would a misplaced origin of replication look like in two similar genomes?

Which part of a circular bacterial genome is least conserved?

Aside strand bias: (G/G+C) othe biiases.

Discussion of selected questions from midterm.

ELSE

sequence space