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Question 1

nutritional mutant organisms are also known as

Answer 1

auxotrophs

Question 2

what role does the TATA box play in transcription

Answer 2

It is important as a promoter element for transcription initiation.

Question 3

Why are snRNP (“snurp”) molecules important to eukaryotic transcription?

Answer 3

identification and removal of introns

Question 4

Differences in transcription of eukaryotic and bacterial protein coding 3

Answer 4

• in euk, RNA polymerase II, enzyme cannot bind directly to DNA - in bacteria, RNA polymerase binds directly to DNA
• in prokaryotic, the end of transcription forms a hairpin or a protein binds to the sequence of mRNA