Question

Genes that are consistently part of the same operon across different, distantly related genomes are likely to be part of the same protein complex or functional process across all species.

(a) True

(b) False

I had been asked this question in unit test.

Enquiry is from The Use of Gene Order & Phylogeny to Predict Protein in portion Global Approaches for Studying Protein – Protein Interactions of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Correct option is (a) True

To explain: This is because they have been selected to remain as a co-regulated unit throughout the extensive shuffling of gene order that takes place in prokaryote genomes. Thus conservation of gene order across different, distantly related genomes has been used as a method for predicting protein interactions.