Question

Minisatellites are made up of repeat units of up to ____ and microsatellites compose of repeat units of ____ or less.

(a) 25 bp, 10 bp

(b) 70 bp, 6 bp

(c) 80 bp, 9 bp

(d) 25 bp, 4 bp

I had been asked this question during an interview for a job.

My enquiry is from Genome Anatomy in chapter Collecting & Storing Sequences in Laboratory of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Right choice is (d) 25 bp, 4 bp

The best I can explain: They are also found in eukaryotic Genomes. Microsatellite repeats are found at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes at the telomeres, which in humans comprise hundreds of copies of a 6-bp repeat TTAGGG.