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2008_Summer_Olympics_torch_relay
The Olympic Flame is supposed to remain lit for the whole relay. When the Torch is extinguished at night, on airplanes, in bad weather, or during protests (such as the several occasions in Paris), the Olympic Flame is kept alight in a set of 8 lanterns.[citation needed]
The torch is put out at night, on aircraft, during storms and what else?
{ "text": [ "during protests" ], "answer_start": [ 139 ] }
56db74fee7c41114004b5138
2008_Summer_Olympics_torch_relay
A union planned to protest at the relay for better living conditions. Hong Kong legislator Michael Mak Kwok-fung and activist Chan Cheong, both members of the League of Social Democrats, were not allowed to enter Macau.
Who was Michael Mak Kwok-fung?
{ "text": [ "Hong Kong legislator" ], "answer_start": [ 70 ] }
56db772fe7c41114004b515f
2008_Summer_Olympics_torch_relay
Chinese media have also reported on Jin Jing, whom the official Chinese torch relay website described as "heroic" and an "angel", whereas Western media initially gave her little mention – despite a Chinese claim that "Chinese Paralympic athlete Jin Jing has garnered much attention from the media".
Which athlete did the official website call an angel?
{ "text": [ "Jin Jing" ], "answer_start": [ 36 ] }
56db772fe7c41114004b5160
2008_Summer_Olympics_torch_relay
Chinese media have also reported on Jin Jing, whom the official Chinese torch relay website described as "heroic" and an "angel", whereas Western media initially gave her little mention – despite a Chinese claim that "Chinese Paralympic athlete Jin Jing has garnered much attention from the media".
Which media outlets gave Jin Jing little notice?
{ "text": [ "Western media" ], "answer_start": [ 138 ] }
56db7a9ee7c41114004b518d
2008_Summer_Olympics_torch_relay
Two additional teams of 40 attendants each will accompany the flame on its Mainland China route. This arrangement has however sparked several controversies.
How many additional teams will help with the Mainland China route?
{ "text": [ "Two" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
56db7a9ee7c41114004b518e
2008_Summer_Olympics_torch_relay
Two additional teams of 40 attendants each will accompany the flame on its Mainland China route. This arrangement has however sparked several controversies.
How many members are on each of these two teams?
{ "text": [ "40" ], "answer_start": [ 24 ] }
56dc544814d3a41400c267bf
Genome
In modern molecular biology and genetics, the genome is the genetic material of an organism. It consists of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The genome includes both the genes and the non-coding sequences of the DNA/RNA.
In what fields of science is the genome studied?
{ "text": [ "molecular biology and genetics" ], "answer_start": [ 10 ] }
56dc544814d3a41400c267c0
Genome
In modern molecular biology and genetics, the genome is the genetic material of an organism. It consists of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The genome includes both the genes and the non-coding sequences of the DNA/RNA.
What is the content of the human genome?
{ "text": [ "DNA" ], "answer_start": [ 108 ] }
56dc544814d3a41400c267c1
Genome
In modern molecular biology and genetics, the genome is the genetic material of an organism. It consists of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The genome includes both the genes and the non-coding sequences of the DNA/RNA.
What constitutes the viral genome?
{ "text": [ "RNA" ], "answer_start": [ 116 ] }
56dc54a514d3a41400c267c5
Genome
The term was created in 1920 by Hans Winkler, professor of botany at the University of Hamburg, Germany. The Oxford Dictionary suggests the name to be a blend of the words gene and chromosome. However, see omics for a more thorough discussion. A few related -ome words already existed—such as biome, rhizome, forming a v...
Who coined the word genome?
{ "text": [ "Hans Winkler" ], "answer_start": [ 32 ] }
56dc54a514d3a41400c267c6
Genome
The term was created in 1920 by Hans Winkler, professor of botany at the University of Hamburg, Germany. The Oxford Dictionary suggests the name to be a blend of the words gene and chromosome. However, see omics for a more thorough discussion. A few related -ome words already existed—such as biome, rhizome, forming a v...
In what year was the word genome first created?
{ "text": [ "1920" ], "answer_start": [ 24 ] }
56dc54a514d3a41400c267c7
Genome
The term was created in 1920 by Hans Winkler, professor of botany at the University of Hamburg, Germany. The Oxford Dictionary suggests the name to be a blend of the words gene and chromosome. However, see omics for a more thorough discussion. A few related -ome words already existed—such as biome, rhizome, forming a v...
At what university was Hans Winkler employed when he created the word genome?
{ "text": [ "University of Hamburg" ], "answer_start": [ 73 ] }
56dc54a514d3a41400c267c8
Genome
The term was created in 1920 by Hans Winkler, professor of botany at the University of Hamburg, Germany. The Oxford Dictionary suggests the name to be a blend of the words gene and chromosome. However, see omics for a more thorough discussion. A few related -ome words already existed—such as biome, rhizome, forming a v...
Which two similar words share etymology with genome?
{ "text": [ "biome, rhizome" ], "answer_start": [ 293 ] }
56dc552f14d3a41400c267cd
Genome
Some organisms have multiple copies of chromosomes: diploid, triploid, tetraploid and so on. In classical genetics, in a sexually reproducing organism (typically eukarya) the gamete has half the number of chromosomes of the somatic cell and the genome is a full set of chromosomes in a diploid cell. The halving of the g...
A gamate has how many chromosomes relative to a somatic cell?
{ "text": [ "half" ], "answer_start": [ 186 ] }
56dc552f14d3a41400c267ce
Genome
Some organisms have multiple copies of chromosomes: diploid, triploid, tetraploid and so on. In classical genetics, in a sexually reproducing organism (typically eukarya) the gamete has half the number of chromosomes of the somatic cell and the genome is a full set of chromosomes in a diploid cell. The halving of the g...
What process splits the chromosome between gametes?
{ "text": [ "meiosis" ], "answer_start": [ 415 ] }
56dc552f14d3a41400c267cf
Genome
Some organisms have multiple copies of chromosomes: diploid, triploid, tetraploid and so on. In classical genetics, in a sexually reproducing organism (typically eukarya) the gamete has half the number of chromosomes of the somatic cell and the genome is a full set of chromosomes in a diploid cell. The halving of the g...
What are two cellular organelles which contain genetic material?
{ "text": [ "mitochondria and chloroplasts" ], "answer_start": [ 512 ] }
56dc561414d3a41400c267d3
Genome
When people say that the genome of a sexually reproducing species has been "sequenced", typically they are referring to a determination of the sequences of one set of autosomes and one of each type of sex chromosome, which together represent both of the possible sexes. Even in species that exist in only one sex, what i...
What is the science that deals with the common genetic characteristics of related organisms called?
{ "text": [ "genomics" ], "answer_start": [ 656 ] }
56dc561414d3a41400c267d4
Genome
When people say that the genome of a sexually reproducing species has been "sequenced", typically they are referring to a determination of the sequences of one set of autosomes and one of each type of sex chromosome, which together represent both of the possible sexes. Even in species that exist in only one sex, what i...
In contrast to genomics, genetics usually studies what?
{ "text": [ "single genes or groups of genes" ], "answer_start": [ 745 ] }
56dc561414d3a41400c267d5
Genome
When people say that the genome of a sexually reproducing species has been "sequenced", typically they are referring to a determination of the sequences of one set of autosomes and one of each type of sex chromosome, which together represent both of the possible sexes. Even in species that exist in only one sex, what i...
What is the catalog of contents of a particular species' genetic makeup?
{ "text": [ "sequenced" ], "answer_start": [ 76 ] }
56dc56a414d3a41400c267d9
Genome
Both the number of base pairs and the number of genes vary widely from one species to another, and there is only a rough correlation between the two (an observation known as the C-value paradox). At present, the highest known number of genes is around 60,000, for the protozoan causing trichomoniasis (see List of sequen...
What is the relation between the number of base pairs and total complement of genes in a species called?
{ "text": [ "C-value paradox" ], "answer_start": [ 178 ] }
56dc56a414d3a41400c267da
Genome
Both the number of base pairs and the number of genes vary widely from one species to another, and there is only a rough correlation between the two (an observation known as the C-value paradox). At present, the highest known number of genes is around 60,000, for the protozoan causing trichomoniasis (see List of sequen...
Which organism has the most genes?
{ "text": [ "trichomoniasis" ], "answer_start": [ 286 ] }
56dc56a414d3a41400c267db
Genome
Both the number of base pairs and the number of genes vary widely from one species to another, and there is only a rough correlation between the two (an observation known as the C-value paradox). At present, the highest known number of genes is around 60,000, for the protozoan causing trichomoniasis (see List of sequen...
How many genes is the trichomoniasis estimated to have?
{ "text": [ "60,000" ], "answer_start": [ 252 ] }
56dc56a414d3a41400c267dc
Genome
Both the number of base pairs and the number of genes vary widely from one species to another, and there is only a rough correlation between the two (an observation known as the C-value paradox). At present, the highest known number of genes is around 60,000, for the protozoan causing trichomoniasis (see List of sequen...
Relative to the human genome, how many more genes does trichomoniasis have?
{ "text": [ "three times" ], "answer_start": [ 352 ] }
56dc575814d3a41400c267e1
Genome
In 1976, Walter Fiers at the University of Ghent (Belgium) was the first to establish the complete nucleotide sequence of a viral RNA-genome (Bacteriophage MS2). The next year Fred Sanger completed the first DNA-genome sequence: Phage Φ-X174, of 5386 base pairs. The first complete genome sequences among all three domai...
Who was the first person to sequence a viral genome?
{ "text": [ "Walter Fiers" ], "answer_start": [ 9 ] }
56dc575814d3a41400c267e2
Genome
In 1976, Walter Fiers at the University of Ghent (Belgium) was the first to establish the complete nucleotide sequence of a viral RNA-genome (Bacteriophage MS2). The next year Fred Sanger completed the first DNA-genome sequence: Phage Φ-X174, of 5386 base pairs. The first complete genome sequences among all three domai...
Which viral genome did Fiers sequence?
{ "text": [ "Bacteriophage MS2" ], "answer_start": [ 142 ] }
56dc575814d3a41400c267e3
Genome
In 1976, Walter Fiers at the University of Ghent (Belgium) was the first to establish the complete nucleotide sequence of a viral RNA-genome (Bacteriophage MS2). The next year Fred Sanger completed the first DNA-genome sequence: Phage Φ-X174, of 5386 base pairs. The first complete genome sequences among all three domai...
Who was first to sequence a DNA-based genome?
{ "text": [ "Fred Sanger" ], "answer_start": [ 176 ] }
56dc575814d3a41400c267e4
Genome
In 1976, Walter Fiers at the University of Ghent (Belgium) was the first to establish the complete nucleotide sequence of a viral RNA-genome (Bacteriophage MS2). The next year Fred Sanger completed the first DNA-genome sequence: Phage Φ-X174, of 5386 base pairs. The first complete genome sequences among all three domai...
What organization first sequenced a bacterial genome?
{ "text": [ "Institute for Genomic Research" ], "answer_start": [ 495 ] }
56dc575814d3a41400c267e5
Genome
In 1976, Walter Fiers at the University of Ghent (Belgium) was the first to establish the complete nucleotide sequence of a viral RNA-genome (Bacteriophage MS2). The next year Fred Sanger completed the first DNA-genome sequence: Phage Φ-X174, of 5386 base pairs. The first complete genome sequences among all three domai...
In what year was the archaeon genome sequenced?
{ "text": [ "1996" ], "answer_start": [ 836 ] }
56dc57f714d3a41400c267eb
Genome
The development of new technologies has made it dramatically easier and cheaper to do sequencing, and the number of complete genome sequences is growing rapidly. The US National Institutes of Health maintains one of several comprehensive databases of genomic information. Among the thousands of completed genome sequenci...
Which U.S. government agency keeps a large amount of information on genomes?
{ "text": [ "US National Institutes of Health" ], "answer_start": [ 166 ] }
56dc57f714d3a41400c267ec
Genome
The development of new technologies has made it dramatically easier and cheaper to do sequencing, and the number of complete genome sequences is growing rapidly. The US National Institutes of Health maintains one of several comprehensive databases of genomic information. Among the thousands of completed genome sequenci...
What is a mammal whose genome has been sequenced?
{ "text": [ "mouse" ], "answer_start": [ 358 ] }
56dc57f714d3a41400c267ed
Genome
The development of new technologies has made it dramatically easier and cheaper to do sequencing, and the number of complete genome sequences is growing rapidly. The US National Institutes of Health maintains one of several comprehensive databases of genomic information. Among the thousands of completed genome sequenci...
What is a fish whose genome has been sequenced?
{ "text": [ "puffer fish" ], "answer_start": [ 401 ] }
56dc57f714d3a41400c267ee
Genome
The development of new technologies has made it dramatically easier and cheaper to do sequencing, and the number of complete genome sequences is growing rapidly. The US National Institutes of Health maintains one of several comprehensive databases of genomic information. Among the thousands of completed genome sequenci...
When was the Neanderthal's genome sequenced?
{ "text": [ "December 2013" ], "answer_start": [ 443 ] }
56dc57f714d3a41400c267ef
Genome
The development of new technologies has made it dramatically easier and cheaper to do sequencing, and the number of complete genome sequences is growing rapidly. The US National Institutes of Health maintains one of several comprehensive databases of genomic information. Among the thousands of completed genome sequenci...
How old in years was the material that was used to sequence the Neanderthal genome?
{ "text": [ "130,000" ], "answer_start": [ 599 ] }
56dc587714d3a41400c267f5
Genome
New sequencing technologies, such as massive parallel sequencing have also opened up the prospect of personal genome sequencing as a diagnostic tool, as pioneered by Manteia Predictive Medicine. A major step toward that goal was the completion in 2007 of the full genome of James D. Watson, one of the co-discoverers of ...
What is a recent development in sequencing methods?
{ "text": [ "massive parallel sequencing" ], "answer_start": [ 37 ] }
56dc587714d3a41400c267f6
Genome
New sequencing technologies, such as massive parallel sequencing have also opened up the prospect of personal genome sequencing as a diagnostic tool, as pioneered by Manteia Predictive Medicine. A major step toward that goal was the completion in 2007 of the full genome of James D. Watson, one of the co-discoverers of ...
Which company has led the way in sequencing of individual genetic makeup?
{ "text": [ "Manteia Predictive Medicine" ], "answer_start": [ 166 ] }
56dc587714d3a41400c267f7
Genome
New sequencing technologies, such as massive parallel sequencing have also opened up the prospect of personal genome sequencing as a diagnostic tool, as pioneered by Manteia Predictive Medicine. A major step toward that goal was the completion in 2007 of the full genome of James D. Watson, one of the co-discoverers of ...
Whose complete genetic information was recorded in 2007?
{ "text": [ "James D. Watson" ], "answer_start": [ 274 ] }
56dc587714d3a41400c267f8
Genome
New sequencing technologies, such as massive parallel sequencing have also opened up the prospect of personal genome sequencing as a diagnostic tool, as pioneered by Manteia Predictive Medicine. A major step toward that goal was the completion in 2007 of the full genome of James D. Watson, one of the co-discoverers of ...
What is Watson famous for helping discover?
{ "text": [ "the structure of DNA" ], "answer_start": [ 320 ] }
56dc591114d3a41400c267fd
Genome
Whereas a genome sequence lists the order of every DNA base in a genome, a genome map identifies the landmarks. A genome map is less detailed than a genome sequence and aids in navigating around the genome. The Human Genome Project was organized to map and to sequence the human genome. A fundamental step in the project...
What is the term for something that lists the important and notable parts of a genome?
{ "text": [ "genome map" ], "answer_start": [ 75 ] }
56dc591114d3a41400c267fe
Genome
Whereas a genome sequence lists the order of every DNA base in a genome, a genome map identifies the landmarks. A genome map is less detailed than a genome sequence and aids in navigating around the genome. The Human Genome Project was organized to map and to sequence the human genome. A fundamental step in the project...
Which group was created to generate a genome map of human genetic material?
{ "text": [ "The Human Genome Project" ], "answer_start": [ 207 ] }
56dc591114d3a41400c267ff
Genome
Whereas a genome sequence lists the order of every DNA base in a genome, a genome map identifies the landmarks. A genome map is less detailed than a genome sequence and aids in navigating around the genome. The Human Genome Project was organized to map and to sequence the human genome. A fundamental step in the project...
Whose genome map greatly aided the Human Genome Project?
{ "text": [ "Jean Weissenbach" ], "answer_start": [ 366 ] }
56dc591114d3a41400c26800
Genome
Whereas a genome sequence lists the order of every DNA base in a genome, a genome map identifies the landmarks. A genome map is less detailed than a genome sequence and aids in navigating around the genome. The Human Genome Project was organized to map and to sequence the human genome. A fundamental step in the project...
Where did Weissenbach and his colleagues work?
{ "text": [ "Genoscope" ], "answer_start": [ 403 ] }
56dc5baa14d3a41400c26805
Genome
Genome composition is used to describe the make up of contents of a haploid genome, which should include genome size, proportions of non-repetitive DNA and repetitive DNA in details. By comparing the genome compositions between genomes, scientists can better understand the evolutionary history of a given genome.
What is the term that accounts for the constituents of the haploid genome?
{ "text": [ "Genome composition" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
56dc5baa14d3a41400c26806
Genome
Genome composition is used to describe the make up of contents of a haploid genome, which should include genome size, proportions of non-repetitive DNA and repetitive DNA in details. By comparing the genome compositions between genomes, scientists can better understand the evolutionary history of a given genome.
What aspect of a genome can genome compositions help researchers in learning about?
{ "text": [ "evolutionary history" ], "answer_start": [ 274 ] }
56dc5c6214d3a41400c26809
Genome
When talking about genome composition, one should distinguish between prokaryotes and eukaryotes as the big differences on contents structure they have. In prokaryotes, most of the genome (85–90%) is non-repetitive DNA, which means coding DNA mainly forms it, while non-coding regions only take a small part. On the cont...
What two types of organisms have remarkable differences in their genomic composition?
{ "text": [ "prokaryotes and eukaryotes" ], "answer_start": [ 70 ] }
56dc5c6214d3a41400c2680b
Genome
When talking about genome composition, one should distinguish between prokaryotes and eukaryotes as the big differences on contents structure they have. In prokaryotes, most of the genome (85–90%) is non-repetitive DNA, which means coding DNA mainly forms it, while non-coding regions only take a small part. On the cont...
What type of organizing can be observed in eukaryote genomes?
{ "text": [ "exon-intron" ], "answer_start": [ 357 ] }
56dc5c6214d3a41400c2680c
Genome
When talking about genome composition, one should distinguish between prokaryotes and eukaryotes as the big differences on contents structure they have. In prokaryotes, most of the genome (85–90%) is non-repetitive DNA, which means coding DNA mainly forms it, while non-coding regions only take a small part. On the cont...
In what types of eukaryotes is there a large amount of non-coding DNA?
{ "text": [ "mammals and plants" ], "answer_start": [ 488 ] }
56dc5cf614d3a41400c26811
Genome
Most biological entities that are more complex than a virus sometimes or always carry additional genetic material besides that which resides in their chromosomes. In some contexts, such as sequencing the genome of a pathogenic microbe, "genome" is meant to include information stored on this auxiliary material, which is...
What is an example of an organism that has a portion of its genetic material outside of its chromosomes?
{ "text": [ "pathogenic microbe" ], "answer_start": [ 216 ] }
56dc5cf614d3a41400c26812
Genome
Most biological entities that are more complex than a virus sometimes or always carry additional genetic material besides that which resides in their chromosomes. In some contexts, such as sequencing the genome of a pathogenic microbe, "genome" is meant to include information stored on this auxiliary material, which is...
What is an example of an organism whose full complement of genetic material resides in its chromosomes?
{ "text": [ "virus" ], "answer_start": [ 54 ] }
56dc5cf614d3a41400c26813
Genome
Most biological entities that are more complex than a virus sometimes or always carry additional genetic material besides that which resides in their chromosomes. In some contexts, such as sequencing the genome of a pathogenic microbe, "genome" is meant to include information stored on this auxiliary material, which is...
Where is additional genetic material found in pathogenic microbes?
{ "text": [ "plasmids" ], "answer_start": [ 332 ] }
56dc5d6c14d3a41400c26817
Genome
In eukaryotes such as plants, protozoa and animals, however, "genome" carries the typical connotation of only information on chromosomal DNA. So although these organisms contain chloroplasts or mitochondria that have their own DNA, the genetic information contained by DNA within these organelles is not considered part ...
What are examples of classes of eukaryotes where genome only refers to the information found in chromosomes?
{ "text": [ "plants, protozoa and animals" ], "answer_start": [ 22 ] }
56dc5d6c14d3a41400c26819
Genome
In eukaryotes such as plants, protozoa and animals, however, "genome" carries the typical connotation of only information on chromosomal DNA. So although these organisms contain chloroplasts or mitochondria that have their own DNA, the genetic information contained by DNA within these organelles is not considered part ...
What is a name for the genetic material found within chloroplasts?
{ "text": [ "plastome" ], "answer_start": [ 514 ] }
56dc5d6c14d3a41400c2681a
Genome
In eukaryotes such as plants, protozoa and animals, however, "genome" carries the typical connotation of only information on chromosomal DNA. So although these organisms contain chloroplasts or mitochondria that have their own DNA, the genetic information contained by DNA within these organelles is not considered part ...
What is a name for the genetic makeup of mitochondria?
{ "text": [ "mitochondrial genome" ], "answer_start": [ 427 ] }
56dc5de314d3a41400c2681f
Genome
Genome size is the total number of DNA base pairs in one copy of a haploid genome. The genome size is positively correlated with the morphological complexity among prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes; however, after mollusks and all the other higher eukaryotes above, this correlation is no longer effective. This phenomeno...
What is the name for the count of all DNA base pairs in a single haploid genome?
{ "text": [ "Genome size" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
56dc5de314d3a41400c26820
Genome
Genome size is the total number of DNA base pairs in one copy of a haploid genome. The genome size is positively correlated with the morphological complexity among prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes; however, after mollusks and all the other higher eukaryotes above, this correlation is no longer effective. This phenomeno...
What does genome size have a direct relationship with in prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes?
{ "text": [ "morphological complexity" ], "answer_start": [ 133 ] }
56dc5de314d3a41400c26821
Genome
Genome size is the total number of DNA base pairs in one copy of a haploid genome. The genome size is positively correlated with the morphological complexity among prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes; however, after mollusks and all the other higher eukaryotes above, this correlation is no longer effective. This phenomeno...
What accounts for the breakdown of the relation between genome size and morphological complexity in higher eukaryotes?
{ "text": [ "repetitive DNA" ], "answer_start": [ 370 ] }
56dc5e7014d3a41400c26825
Genome
Since genomes are very complex, one research strategy is to reduce the number of genes in a genome to the bare minimum and still have the organism in question survive. There is experimental work being done on minimal genomes for single cell organisms as well as minimal genomes for multi-cellular organisms (see Developm...
What is a name for the reduced complement of genetic material necessary for an organism to live?
{ "text": [ "minimal genomes" ], "answer_start": [ 209 ] }
56dc5e7014d3a41400c26826
Genome
Since genomes are very complex, one research strategy is to reduce the number of genes in a genome to the bare minimum and still have the organism in question survive. There is experimental work being done on minimal genomes for single cell organisms as well as minimal genomes for multi-cellular organisms (see Developm...
In what experimental contexts are experiments being carried out on minimal genomes?
{ "text": [ "in vivo and in silico" ], "answer_start": [ 353 ] }
56dc5f8a14d3a41400c26829
Genome
The proportion of non-repetitive DNA is calculated by using the length of non-repetitive DNA divided by genome size. Protein-coding genes and RNA-coding genes are generally non-repetitive DNA. A bigger genome does not mean more genes, and the proportion of non-repetitive DNA decreases along with increasing genome size ...
What are two types of non-repetitive DNA?
{ "text": [ "Protein-coding genes and RNA-coding genes" ], "answer_start": [ 117 ] }
56dc5f8a14d3a41400c2682a
Genome
The proportion of non-repetitive DNA is calculated by using the length of non-repetitive DNA divided by genome size. Protein-coding genes and RNA-coding genes are generally non-repetitive DNA. A bigger genome does not mean more genes, and the proportion of non-repetitive DNA decreases along with increasing genome size ...
In higher eukaryotes, what has an inverse relationship with genome size?
{ "text": [ "proportion of non-repetitive DNA" ], "answer_start": [ 4 ] }
56dc5f8a14d3a41400c2682b
Genome
The proportion of non-repetitive DNA is calculated by using the length of non-repetitive DNA divided by genome size. Protein-coding genes and RNA-coding genes are generally non-repetitive DNA. A bigger genome does not mean more genes, and the proportion of non-repetitive DNA decreases along with increasing genome size ...
What is the size of non-repetitive DNA divided by to get the proportion of non-repetitive DNA?
{ "text": [ "genome size" ], "answer_start": [ 104 ] }
56dc600514d3a41400c26835
Genome
It had been found that the proportion of non-repetitive DNA can vary a lot between species. Some E. coli as prokaryotes only have non-repetitive DNA, lower eukaryotes such as C. elegans and fruit fly, still possess more non-repetitive DNA than repetitive DNA. Higher eukaryotes tend to have more repetitive DNA than non-...
What is an example of an organism which does not contain any repetitive DNA?
{ "text": [ "E. coli" ], "answer_start": [ 97 ] }
56dc600514d3a41400c26836
Genome
It had been found that the proportion of non-repetitive DNA can vary a lot between species. Some E. coli as prokaryotes only have non-repetitive DNA, lower eukaryotes such as C. elegans and fruit fly, still possess more non-repetitive DNA than repetitive DNA. Higher eukaryotes tend to have more repetitive DNA than non-...
What are two organisms that have more non-repetitive than repetitive DNA?
{ "text": [ "C. elegans and fruit fly" ], "answer_start": [ 175 ] }
56dc600514d3a41400c26837
Genome
It had been found that the proportion of non-repetitive DNA can vary a lot between species. Some E. coli as prokaryotes only have non-repetitive DNA, lower eukaryotes such as C. elegans and fruit fly, still possess more non-repetitive DNA than repetitive DNA. Higher eukaryotes tend to have more repetitive DNA than non-...
What is the percentage of non-repetitive DNA in some plant and amphibian genomes?
{ "text": [ "20%" ], "answer_start": [ 421 ] }
56dc604614d3a41400c2683b
Genome
The proportion of repetitive DNA is calculated by using length of repetitive DNA divide by genome size. There are two categories of repetitive DNA in genome: tandem repeats and interspersed repeats.
What are two types of repetitive DNA found in genomes?
{ "text": [ "tandem repeats and interspersed repeats" ], "answer_start": [ 158 ] }
56dc604614d3a41400c2683c
Genome
The proportion of repetitive DNA is calculated by using length of repetitive DNA divide by genome size. There are two categories of repetitive DNA in genome: tandem repeats and interspersed repeats.
What is found by dividing size of repetitive DNA by length of total genome?
{ "text": [ "proportion of repetitive DNA" ], "answer_start": [ 4 ] }
56dc610914d3a41400c2683f
Genome
Tandem repeats are usually caused by slippage during replication, unequal crossing-over and gene conversion, satellite DNA and microsatellites are forms of tandem repeats in the genome. Although tandem repeats count for a significant proportion in genome, the largest proportion in mammalian is the other type, intersper...
Unequal crossing over can create what type of repetitive DNA?
{ "text": [ "Tandem repeats" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
56dc610914d3a41400c26840
Genome
Tandem repeats are usually caused by slippage during replication, unequal crossing-over and gene conversion, satellite DNA and microsatellites are forms of tandem repeats in the genome. Although tandem repeats count for a significant proportion in genome, the largest proportion in mammalian is the other type, intersper...
What are two examples of tandem repeats in DNA?
{ "text": [ "satellite DNA and microsatellites" ], "answer_start": [ 109 ] }
56dc610914d3a41400c26841
Genome
Tandem repeats are usually caused by slippage during replication, unequal crossing-over and gene conversion, satellite DNA and microsatellites are forms of tandem repeats in the genome. Although tandem repeats count for a significant proportion in genome, the largest proportion in mammalian is the other type, intersper...
What is the most common type of repetitive DNA in mammals?
{ "text": [ "interspersed repeats." ], "answer_start": [ 311 ] }
56dc63c214d3a41400c26845
Genome
Interspersed repeats mainly come from transposable elements (TEs), but they also include some protein coding gene families and pseudogenes. Transposable elements are able to integrate into the genome at another site within the cell. It is believed that TEs are an important driving force on genome evolution of higher eu...
What is the main source of interspersed repeats?
{ "text": [ "Transposable elements" ], "answer_start": [ 140 ] }
56dc63c214d3a41400c26846
Genome
Interspersed repeats mainly come from transposable elements (TEs), but they also include some protein coding gene families and pseudogenes. Transposable elements are able to integrate into the genome at another site within the cell. It is believed that TEs are an important driving force on genome evolution of higher eu...
What do researchers think transposable elements are key factors in when considering higher eukaryotes?
{ "text": [ "genome evolution" ], "answer_start": [ 291 ] }
56dc63c214d3a41400c26847
Genome
Interspersed repeats mainly come from transposable elements (TEs), but they also include some protein coding gene families and pseudogenes. Transposable elements are able to integrate into the genome at another site within the cell. It is believed that TEs are an important driving force on genome evolution of higher eu...
What are the constituents of Class 1 transposable elements?
{ "text": [ "retrotransposons" ], "answer_start": [ 382 ] }
56dc63c214d3a41400c26848
Genome
Interspersed repeats mainly come from transposable elements (TEs), but they also include some protein coding gene families and pseudogenes. Transposable elements are able to integrate into the genome at another site within the cell. It is believed that TEs are an important driving force on genome evolution of higher eu...
What are the constituents of Class 2 transposable elements?
{ "text": [ "DNA transposons" ], "answer_start": [ 413 ] }
56dc63f014d3a41400c2684d
Genome
Retrotransposons can be transcribed into RNA, which are then duplicated at another site into the genome. Retrotransposons can be divided into Long terminal repeats (LTRs) and Non-Long Terminal Repeats (Non-LTR).
What kind of genetic material can be produced from retrotransposons?
{ "text": [ "RNA" ], "answer_start": [ 41 ] }
56dc648d14d3a41400c26851
Genome
DNA transposons generally move by "cut and paste" in the genome, but duplication has also been observed. Class 2 TEs do not use RNA as intermediate and are popular in bacteria, in metazoan it has also been found.
What is a term that can describe how DNA transposons move?
{ "text": [ "cut and paste" ], "answer_start": [ 35 ] }
56dc648d14d3a41400c26852
Genome
DNA transposons generally move by "cut and paste" in the genome, but duplication has also been observed. Class 2 TEs do not use RNA as intermediate and are popular in bacteria, in metazoan it has also been found.
DNA transposons do not use which genetic material used by Class 1 TEs?
{ "text": [ "RNA" ], "answer_start": [ 128 ] }
56dc656c14d3a41400c26857
Genome
Genomes are more than the sum of an organism's genes and have traits that may be measured and studied without reference to the details of any particular genes and their products. Researchers compare traits such as chromosome number (karyotype), genome size, gene order, codon usage bias, and GC-content to determine what...
What is another word for the total count of chromosomes?
{ "text": [ "karyotype" ], "answer_start": [ 233 ] }
56dc656c14d3a41400c26858
Genome
Genomes are more than the sum of an organism's genes and have traits that may be measured and studied without reference to the details of any particular genes and their products. Researchers compare traits such as chromosome number (karyotype), genome size, gene order, codon usage bias, and GC-content to determine what...
Aside from karyotype, what are other genomic traits studied by scientists?
{ "text": [ "genome size, gene order, codon usage bias, and GC-content" ], "answer_start": [ 245 ] }
56dc662314d3a41400c2685b
Genome
Duplications play a major role in shaping the genome. Duplication may range from extension of short tandem repeats, to duplication of a cluster of genes, and all the way to duplication of entire chromosomes or even entire genomes. Such duplications are probably fundamental to the creation of genetic novelty.
What type of generation of genetic material has a big part in making the genome what it is?
{ "text": [ "Duplications" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
56dc662314d3a41400c2685d
Genome
Duplications play a major role in shaping the genome. Duplication may range from extension of short tandem repeats, to duplication of a cluster of genes, and all the way to duplication of entire chromosomes or even entire genomes. Such duplications are probably fundamental to the creation of genetic novelty.
What is a possible product of duplications?
{ "text": [ "genetic novelty" ], "answer_start": [ 293 ] }
56dc66bb14d3a41400c26861
Genome
Horizontal gene transfer is invoked to explain how there is often extreme similarity between small portions of the genomes of two organisms that are otherwise very distantly related. Horizontal gene transfer seems to be common among many microbes. Also, eukaryotic cells seem to have experienced a transfer of some genet...
What is an explanation for the resemblance between disparate parts of the genome?
{ "text": [ "Horizontal gene transfer" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
56dc66bb14d3a41400c26862
Genome
Horizontal gene transfer is invoked to explain how there is often extreme similarity between small portions of the genomes of two organisms that are otherwise very distantly related. Horizontal gene transfer seems to be common among many microbes. Also, eukaryotic cells seem to have experienced a transfer of some genet...
In which organisms does horizontal gene transfer appear to occur commonly?
{ "text": [ "microbes" ], "answer_start": [ 238 ] }
56dc66bb14d3a41400c26863
Genome
Horizontal gene transfer is invoked to explain how there is often extreme similarity between small portions of the genomes of two organisms that are otherwise very distantly related. Horizontal gene transfer seems to be common among many microbes. Also, eukaryotic cells seem to have experienced a transfer of some genet...
Parts of which organelle genomes are thought to have ended up in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells via transfer?
{ "text": [ "chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes" ], "answer_start": [ 343 ] }
56dc686a14d3a41400c26867
Comprehensive_school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to England and Wales, where comprehensive...
What kind of school does not base its admissions on academic merit?
{ "text": [ "comprehensive school" ], "answer_start": [ 2 ] }
56dc686a14d3a41400c26868
Comprehensive_school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to England and Wales, where comprehensive...
What kind of school system uses academic success to judge admissions?
{ "text": [ "selective school system" ], "answer_start": [ 150 ] }
56dc686a14d3a41400c26869
Comprehensive_school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to England and Wales, where comprehensive...
What countries used comprehensive schools extensively?
{ "text": [ "England and Wales" ], "answer_start": [ 282 ] }
56dc686a14d3a41400c2686a
Comprehensive_school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to England and Wales, where comprehensive...
How many secondary school students attend comprehensive schools in England?
{ "text": [ "90%" ], "answer_start": [ 427 ] }
56dc686a14d3a41400c2686b
Comprehensive_school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to England and Wales, where comprehensive...
What is the German analogue of the comprehensive school?
{ "text": [ "Gesamtschule" ], "answer_start": [ 600 ] }
56dc695914d3a41400c26871
Comprehensive_school
Comprehensive schools are primarily about providing an entitlement curriculum to all children, without selection whether due to financial considerations or attainment. A consequence of that is a wider ranging curriculum, including practical subjects such as design and technology and vocational learning, which were less...
What are some areas of learning in comprehensive schools that were not found often in grammar schools?
{ "text": [ "design and technology and vocational learning" ], "answer_start": [ 258 ] }
56dc695914d3a41400c26872
Comprehensive_school
Comprehensive schools are primarily about providing an entitlement curriculum to all children, without selection whether due to financial considerations or attainment. A consequence of that is a wider ranging curriculum, including practical subjects such as design and technology and vocational learning, which were less...
What two kinds of schools were developed in response to the costs of post-16 comprehensive school education?
{ "text": [ "Sixth Form colleges and Further Education Colleges" ], "answer_start": [ 750 ] }
56dc695914d3a41400c26874
Comprehensive_school
Comprehensive schools are primarily about providing an entitlement curriculum to all children, without selection whether due to financial considerations or attainment. A consequence of that is a wider ranging curriculum, including practical subjects such as design and technology and vocational learning, which were less...
Which types of school projects have called the model of comprehensive schools into question?
{ "text": [ "City Technology Colleges and Specialist schools programmes" ], "answer_start": [ 1051 ] }
56dc6a0914d3a41400c2687a
Comprehensive_school
In these schools children could be selected on the basis of curriculum aptitude related to the school's specialism even though the schools do take quotas from each quartile of the attainment range to ensure they were not selective by attainment. A problem with this is whether the quotas should be taken from a normal di...
How many selective grammar schools are still currently functioning in England and Wales?
{ "text": [ "164" ], "answer_start": [ 673 ] }
56dc6a0914d3a41400c2687b
Comprehensive_school
In these schools children could be selected on the basis of curriculum aptitude related to the school's specialism even though the schools do take quotas from each quartile of the attainment range to ensure they were not selective by attainment. A problem with this is whether the quotas should be taken from a normal di...
In what year were comprehensive schools first created?
{ "text": [ "1965" ], "answer_start": [ 657 ] }
56dc6a5c14d3a41400c26881
Comprehensive_school
In principle, comprehensive schools were conceived as "neighbourhood" schools for all students in a specified catchment area. Current education reforms with Academies Programme, Free Schools and University Technical Colleges will no doubt have some impact on the comprehensive ideal but it is too early to say to what de...
What is a word that can be used to describe the scope of a comprehensive school's intake?
{ "text": [ "neighbourhood" ], "answer_start": [ 55 ] }
56dc6a5c14d3a41400c26882
Comprehensive_school
In principle, comprehensive schools were conceived as "neighbourhood" schools for all students in a specified catchment area. Current education reforms with Academies Programme, Free Schools and University Technical Colleges will no doubt have some impact on the comprehensive ideal but it is too early to say to what de...
What are some new initiatives that may impact the concept of comprehensive schools?
{ "text": [ "Academies Programme, Free Schools and University Technical Colleges" ], "answer_start": [ 157 ] }
56dc6ab714d3a41400c26885
Comprehensive_school
Finland has used comprehensive schools since the 1970s, in the sense that everyone is expected to complete the nine grades of peruskoulu, from the age 7 to 16. The division to lower comprehensive school (grades 1–6, ala-aste, alakoulu) and upper comprehensive school (grades 7–9, yläaste, yläkoulu) has been discontinued...
In what decade did Finland begin employing comprehensive schools?
{ "text": [ "1970s" ], "answer_start": [ 49 ] }
56dc6ab714d3a41400c26886
Comprehensive_school
Finland has used comprehensive schools since the 1970s, in the sense that everyone is expected to complete the nine grades of peruskoulu, from the age 7 to 16. The division to lower comprehensive school (grades 1–6, ala-aste, alakoulu) and upper comprehensive school (grades 7–9, yläaste, yläkoulu) has been discontinued...
What age ranges does Finnish comprehensive school cover?
{ "text": [ "7 to 16" ], "answer_start": [ 151 ] }
56dc6b3914d3a41400c2688d
Comprehensive_school
Germany has a comprehensive school known as the Gesamtschule. While some German schools such as the Gymnasium and the Realschule have rather strict entrance requirements, the Gesamtschule does not have such requirements. They offer college preparatory classes for the students who are doing well, general education class...
What type of school is the Gesamtschule?
{ "text": [ "comprehensive" ], "answer_start": [ 14 ] }
56dc6b3914d3a41400c2688f
Comprehensive_school
Germany has a comprehensive school known as the Gesamtschule. While some German schools such as the Gymnasium and the Realschule have rather strict entrance requirements, the Gesamtschule does not have such requirements. They offer college preparatory classes for the students who are doing well, general education class...
What kinds of courses are offered to students who are not experiencing academic success?
{ "text": [ "remedial" ], "answer_start": [ 349 ] }
56dc6b3914d3a41400c26890
Comprehensive_school
Germany has a comprehensive school known as the Gesamtschule. While some German schools such as the Gymnasium and the Realschule have rather strict entrance requirements, the Gesamtschule does not have such requirements. They offer college preparatory classes for the students who are doing well, general education class...
What are the different kinds of certificates that Gesamtschule students can earn?
{ "text": [ "the Hauptschulabschluss, the Realschulabschluss or the Abitur" ], "answer_start": [ 470 ] }
56dc6b6714d3a41400c26895
Comprehensive_school
The percentage of students attending a Gesamtschule varies by Bundesland. In the State of Brandenburg more than 50% of all students attended a Gesamtschule in 2007, while in the State of Bavaria less than 1% did.
What percentage of Brandenburg students went to a Gesamtschule in 2007?
{ "text": [ "50%" ], "answer_start": [ 112 ] }