Question 32

(Multiple Choice)

Which of the following is NOT correct regarding long and short interspersed nuclear elements?


A) Each of them encodes a reverse transcriptase.
B) They rely on the cellular transcription machinery to produce their RNA transcript.
C) They use one of the strands in the target DNA as a primer to synthesize their DNA.
D) Together, they make up about 40% of our genome.
E) They can move into new regions of genome that do not have any homology with their DNA.

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