I always thought satellite was a dave matthews song. and the moon.
now i know:
macrosatellite dna: extragenic. tandem repeats:repeated unit tens to hundreds of base pairs. total array 100kb-Mb. often found near centromeres.
microsatellite dna: extragenic. tandem repeats:repeated unit <10 base pairs, often 1 or 2. total array 100 bp. found throughout genome.
minisatellite dna: Extragenic. Tandem repeats: repeated unit 10-70 bp. Total array: 0.1-20 kb. Often found near telomeres.
not forgetting satellite cells which are glial cells in the PNS. along with schwann cells.
Transposons: Long Intervening Nucler Element (LINE): Extragenic sequence that is repeated many times within the genome, but not tandemly. Encodes reverse transcriptase.
Transposons: Short Intervening Nuclear Element (SINE): Extragenic sequence that is repeated many times within the genome, but not tandemly. Does not encode reverse transcriptase.
may i never forget this. at least until the end of year 1.
