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Genetics 301 Homework Assignment #10, Spring 2003

Describe how you would experimentally go about identifying whether the following phenomena might be associated with regulation of expression of a gene (B-mal) coding for an enzyme in a frog. You have isolated genomic DNA and messenger RNA from five tissues (liver, kidney, muscle, heart and spleen) at two different developmental stages (tadpole and adult) in a species of frog.

  1. Gene amplification.
  2. DNA splicing changes (genomic level changes)
  3. DNA methylation changes
  4. Differential splicing of transcribed RNA
  5. Varying levels of messenger RNA

Also: Problems 11.4, 11.6 and 11.12.