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1
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What is the Stem Eukaryote?

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the single common ancestor of all Eukaryotes: eukaryotes are “monophyletic”

2
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What is true about chromosomes?

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they are highly structures & condensed

3
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How do the sizes of eukaryotic genomes and gene numbers vary?

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very dramatically

4
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What is repetitive DNA?

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a major component of the eukaryotic genomes

5
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What is the composition of tandem repeats (Satellite DNAs)?

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centromere, telomere, mini- and micro-satellites

6
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What is the composition of interspersed repeats?

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transposable elements