Question

In a microarray analysis used to compare sporulating and nonsporulating yeast, a spot that appears yellow at a given time point is associated with a gene that is _______. View Available Hint(s) In a microarray analysis used to compare sporulating and nonsporulating yeast, a spot that appears yellow at a given time point is associated with a gene that is _______. is expressed roughly equally in both sporulating and nonsporulating yeast likely to play a role in the process of sporulation expressed in neither the sporulating nor the nonsporulating yeast present in sporulating, but not in nonsporulating yeast

Answer 1

is expressed roughly equally in both sporulating and nonsporulating yeast

Step-by-step explanation:

A DNA microarray (also called DNA chip) is a microchip-based testing platform which can be used to analyze and compare gene expression profiles between samples. A DNA microarray contains microscopic DNA spots attached to a solid surface, where each spot corresponds to thousands of copies of a specific DNA sequence (i.e., probes). Subsequently, cDNA 'target' molecules obtained by reverse transcription from RNA are then hybridized to a microarray. This process of hybridization can be quantified by using fluorophore-labeled targets that determine the level of the expressed gene (transcript) in the target sample. In a DNA microarray, the intensity and types of color in each spot indicate the presence and level of each specific transcribed gene in the samples. In consequence, the presence of yellow spots in the DNA microarray indicates approximately equal expression levels of the corresponding gene in both yeast samples.