Answer:
2 chromosomes
Explanation:
The cell of an eukaryotic organism like roundworm contains the Nucleus, which harbors the genetic material embedded in the chromosome. The number of chromosomes of that organism is contained in each cell.
Somatic cells, also called body cells, are all other cells asides sperm and eggs, that form the tissues and organs of an organism. Somatic cells are usually diploid i.e two sets of chromosomes from each parent. In this question, the roundworm has 4 chromosomes in its somatic cell.
The reproductive cells or sex cells (sperm and eggs) of an organism always result from meiotic division of specialized cells.
Since meiosis is a kind of division that results in cells with their chromosome number reduced by half (haploid), it therefore means that the ovum and sperm cell will be expected to contain 2 chromosomes each.
This way, when fertilization occurs (sperm and egg fusion), the resulting zygote, which will eventually develop into an adult organism, will have 4 chromosomes.
Answer:
■Gene sequences would be used to make Probes for both the Southern and Northern blots.
■The probes will be used to view the presence of each gene with the use of isolated genomic DNA obtained from the isolated bacterium
■Each probes hybridized to the genome shows the pathway is isolated and point of the genes were involved in the substrate catabolism
■The carbon source in the isolate is derived from the substrate inducing the catabolic pathway as RNA determine transcripts present
■Probes hybridizing to the same sequences would be used to determine the gene activity for the pathway as seen in the southern one
■since all the genes present in the genome couldn't be identified, the northern would be important to work on
■Catabolic pathway is determined by the same genes. Hence, the need for gene/transcript probes to hybridize to the transcriptome.
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