"Junk" DNA
Holds Clues to Common Diseases
With the new
annotation of the human genome, researchers are finding that most of the code
between genes is controlling crucial functions for life and health
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1 According to the text, the ‘blueprint’ is/was:
(A) the name of the group
ahead of the experiments.
(B) is very complicated but fully comprehended by scientists.
(C) a newly catalogued switches not activate and only de-activate
genes.
(D) the mixture of human DNA with mice DNA.
(E) a project to put
together a set of letters that make it up.
2 The group known as ENCODE are trying to
(A) comprehend the elements of genome and how they act in
union.
(B) not to understand the elements of genome and how they
work together.
(C) publish a project about the draft of human genome.
(D) find how bad the “junk” DNA could be for humans.
(E) decipher what genetic switches and functions have to be common
within and among these diseases.
3 According to the text:
(A) John
Stamatoyannopoulos is a doctor at the University of Washington’s School of
Medicine.
(B) Richard Myers has autoimmune disease.
(C) junk DNA are not bad at all.
(D) Blueprint is has not been put together.
(E) junk DNA are very bad
for humans.
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