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Read the following and answer any given below:Transposons or jumping genes: The term ‘transposon’ was first given by Hedges and Jacob (1974) for those DNA segments which can join with other DNA segments completely unrelated and thus causing illegitimate pairing. These DNA segments are transposable and may be present on different place on main DNA. The transposons are thus also called Jumping genes. Hedges and Jacob reported them in bacteria. But actual discovery of these was made by Barbara Mc Clintock (1940) in maize and she named them as controlling elements or mobile genetic elements. For this work, she was awarded nobel prize in 1983.(i) Barbra Mc Clintock discovered jumping gene in a. Bacteria b. Human c. Eucalyptus d. Maize (ii). Who gave the term transposon a. Jacob and Monad b. Hedges and Jacob c. Barbra Mc Clintock d. Hugo-de-Vries (iii). Jumping genes are found in a. Eukaryotes b. Bacteriophage c. Bacteria d. Eukaryotes and prokaryotes (iv). The theory of jumping genes was propounded by or nobel prize for the concept of jumping gene was given to a. Mendel b. Morgan c. Barbra McClintock d. Hedges and Jacob (v). DNA elements which can switch their position are called a. Exons b. Introns c. Cistrons d. Transposons

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(i) d. Maize

(ii) b. Hedges and Jacob

(iii) d. Eukaryotes and prokaryotes

(iv) c. Barbra McClintock

(v) d. Transposons



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