Alison is heterozygous for a microsatellite locus with alleles of 128 and 135 repeats. Her daughter Jade has alleles of 116 and 128 repeats. Frank has alleles of 135 and 147 repeats. It is possible that Frank is Jade’s father. 

Repetitive DNA is invariably noncoding DNA.

During interphase, the general mass of chromatin is in the form of _______________, which is slightly less tightly packed than mitotic chromosomes.

The chloroplast genome includes genes for products involved in gene expression, such as RNA polymerase and ribosomal proteins. 

___________________ are inherited blood disorders resulting from abnormal hemoglobin that comes from a mutation that reduces or prevents synthesis of either α- or β-globin genes.

Aquinas’ first cause argument is a(n) __________ argument.

Following mRNA splicing, exons are in the same order as they were in the original gene. 

The production of RNA from a DNA template is called:

Anselm defines God as that __________.

According to some virtue ethicists, an action is right if, and only if __________.