Biology 1002B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rhodopsin, Visual Phototransduction, Channelrhodopsin
14 Jan 2016
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Characteristics of chlamydomonas that make it a useful model system. It is small and grows rapidly, so lots of them can be grown quickly. Contains both plant and animal traits (such as flagella which is similar to human cilia) Dna located in nucleus and chloroplasts (which are primarily prokaryotic genes). So there are both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes in the same cell. Uses light for 2 reasons: for energy and information. Chlamy diverged early on from other plants but it is classified as a plant, sharing a distant common ancestor with plants and animals: more closely related to plants than animals. Has a flagella (animal-related trait) and chloroplasts (plant-related trait) Relationship between genome size and protein coding genes. No relationship because some genomes contain more junk dna than others (i. e. less. Chlamy has a small genome size but because it has less junk dna it has a high number of pcg regions.
