Question

In Metabolic pathways and regulation, as genes are identified in a new genome sequence, some will be found that are known to act sequentially in a metabolic pathway or to have a known role in gene regulation in other organisms.

(a) True

(b) False

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The query is from Sequence Assembly and Gene Identification topic in chapter Collecting & Storing Sequences in Laboratory of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Correct option is (a) True

Best explanation: From this information, the metabolic pathways and metabolic activities of the organism will become apparent. In some cases, the apparent absence of a gene in a well-represented pathway may lead to a more detailed search for the gene. Clustering of genes in the pathway on the genome of a related organism can provide a further hint as to where the gene may be located.