Answer: C
1) One major advantage of using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model
system for studies of plant form and function is its
A) fast
generation time.
B) exceptionally large genome.
C) large
seeds.
D) high tolerance to stress.
E) high mutation rate.
2) Studies using Arabidopsis thaliana have led to important advances
in all of the following except
A) gene mapping.
B) impact
of point mutations on gene function.
C) gene expression during
plant development.
D) evolutionary history of plants.
E)
how genes potentially interact with other genes.
3) The total number of genes in a species' genome is not necessarily
a good indicator of biological complexity because
A) most genes
are never turned on.
B) many genes are repeats.
C) this
does not take into account the alternative splicing of pre-mRNA.
D) this does not take into account mRNA-mRNA interactions.
E) this does not take into account protein-mRNA interactions.