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1
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In eukaryotes, how many polypeptide chain can be translated from a processed mRNA molecule?

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Only a single polypeptide chain

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Regulatory sites for transcription in prokaryotes?

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  • promoters
  • operators and regulators are small
  • near to and usually upstream from start point
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Regulatory regions in eukaryotes

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  • much larger
  • hundreds of bases away
  • no operons
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A large fraction of the base sequences in eukaryotic mRNA is ________

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untranslated

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It is present in eukaryotic genes

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Introns

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Spliced in eukaryotes

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eukaryotic mRNA

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In eukaryotes, it is synthsized

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RNA

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In eukaryotes, RNA is synthesized where?

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nucleus

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Where does the synthesized RNA in the nucleus must be transported?

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transported throught the nuclear membrane to the cytoplasm where it is translated

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After the synthesized RNA is transported to the nuclear membrane, it is translated in?

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Cytoplasm

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In prokaryotes, there is no _____ _____

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nuclear membrane

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In prokaryotes translation of ______ ____ can occur even before transcription has been completed

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nascent mRNA

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13
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There is _____ _____ and more _____ ____ of gene regulation in eukaryotes than in prokaryotes

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  • great number
  • more complex levels
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14
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What is gene expression?

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A biological processes that yield a gene product

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15
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It is expressed when its biological product is present and active

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Gene

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16
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When is gene expressed?

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When its biological product is present and active

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17
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Gene expression is regulated at ______ levels

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multiple levels

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18
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Each cell in your body expresses only a _____ ____ of genes at any time

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small subset

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19
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During development, what cells expresses sets of genes?

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different cells expresses different sets of genes

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20
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Gene regulation is express in what way?

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A precisely regulated fashion

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21
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What level does gene regulation occurs?

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  • transcription
  • production of mRNA
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A given cell transcribes what

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only a specific set of genes and not others

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23
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Gene products should be what?

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released at the right time, in the right place and in the right amounts

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24
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Gene regulation in prokaryotes is mainly for?

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  • growth
  • response to environment
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Who first proposed the theory of Operon?

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  • Francis Jacob
  • Jacques Monod
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A cluster of genes encoding related enzymes that are regulated together

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Operon

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What is an Operon?

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A cluster of genes encoding related enzymes that are regulated together

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28
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Two Categories of Gene Control

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  • Negative Regulation
  • Positive Regulation
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29
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What is a Negative regulation?

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A process of regulating gene expression by inhibiting the expression of that specific gene

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What is present in the cell in Negative regulation?

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an inhibitor (repressor) that keeps transcription turned off

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31
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What is called for an anti-inhibitor?

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Inducer

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32
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What is inducer for?

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needed to turn the system on

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33
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Example of Negative Regulation

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Lactose operon

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34
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What is a Positive regulation?

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Initiates the transcription process on the presence of proteins

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35
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An effector molecule

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  • protein
  • small molecule
  • molecular complex activates a promoter
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36
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Example of Positive regulation

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Lactose operon (cAMP-crp)

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37
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Two Types of Regulatory Proteins

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  • Repressors
  • Activators
38
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What is a Repressors?

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Repress an operon by binding to operator physically

39
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Repressors prevent ____ ____

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mRNA synthesis

40
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How can repressors prevent mRNA synthesis?

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By denying RNA polymerase access to the promoter

41
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Repressors can combine with ____

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effectors

42
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What is Activators?

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bind to activator sites at near promoters

43
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Activators ______ _____ with which RNA polymerase binds to promoter

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increase efficiency

44
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Example of Activators

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  • ara C protein
  • cAMP-crp
45
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Two Types of Effectors

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  • Inducers
  • Corepressors
46
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What are Inducers for?

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Combine with repressors to decrease their binding affinity to DNA

47
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Example of Inducers

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Allolactose in lactose operon

48
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What are Corepressors for?

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Combine with repressors making them functional

49
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Example of Corepressors

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Tryptophan

50
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Two Types of Proteins in Bacterial Cells

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  • Structural proteins
  • Regulatory proteins
51
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Structural proteins

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do not regulate transcriptio

52
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Example of Structural proteins

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  • enzymes
  • membrane proteins
  • ribosomal components
53
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Regulatory proteins

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  • help sense environment
  • regulate rate of transcription of structural genes by binding to DNA
54
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Genes that are actively transcribed (and translated) under all experimental conditions, at essentially all developmental stages, or in virtually all cells

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Constitutively expressed genes

55
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Genes that are transcribed and translated at higher levels in response to an inducing factor

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Inducible genes

56
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Genes whose transcription and translation decreases in response to a repressing signal

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Repressible genes

57
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  • genes for enzymes of central metabolic pathways (e.g. TCA cycle)
  • these genes are constitutively expressed
  • the level of gene expression may vary
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Housekeeping genes

58
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Gene regulation is well studied in ___

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E. coli

59
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What will happen if a bacterial cell encounter a potential food source?

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It will manufacture the necessary enzyme to metabolize that food

60
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What did Monod and Jacob examined in 1959?

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The ability of E. coli cells to digest the sugar lactose

61
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In the presence of the sugar lactose, what enzyme is manufactured?

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E. coli makes an enzyme called beta galactosidase

62
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How can the E. coli makes the enzyme called beta galactosidase?

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when the sugar lactose is present

63
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What enzyme breaks down the sugar lactose?

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Beta galactosidase

64
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Why must the beta galactosidase breaks down the sugar lactose?

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so that the E. coli can digest it for food

65
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What gene in E. coli that codes for the enzyme beta galactosidase?

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LAC Z gene

66
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What is the LAC Z gene?

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It codes for the enzyme beta galactosidase

67
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E. coli bacteria only needs beta galactosidase, if what?

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If there is lactose in the environment to digest

68
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lac operon

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TTTACA / TATGTT

69
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What is lac operon?

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  • weak promoter
  • has a basal expression level
70
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CRP

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cAMP receptor protein

71
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Binding site of CRP

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at -60 region

72
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What is CRP?

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a homodimer with binding ability to DNA and cAMP

73
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It is an example of positive control

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Catabolite Repression

74
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What is Catabolite Repression?

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Repression of some sugar-metabolizing operons in favor of glucose utilization

75
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Catabolite Repression is manifested by what operons?

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maltose, sorbitol, lactose, arabinose, galactose

76
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What is needed in Catabolite repression to turn on the operons?

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cAMP

77
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Glucose reduces level of cAMP by _____

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inactivating adenylate cyclase

78
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High glucose =

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low cAMP

79
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one of the constitutive genes
expressed at the basal level

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trp operon (tryptophan)

80
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For eukaryotic systems:
It is the special DNA sequence that can affect the expression of its own gene

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Cis-acting elements

81
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For eukaryotic systems:
The regulatory proteins

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transcription factors (TF)

82
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A term reffered to TF after it interact with the cis-acting elements to activate another genes

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trans-acting factors

83
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Control of gene expression in eukaryotic cells occurs at which level(s)?

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  • epigenetic
  • transcriptional
  • post-transcriptional
  • translational
  • post-translational levels
84
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Genes within an operon:

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  • are generally involved in the same biochemical pathway
  • are expressed as a polycistronic RNA
  • tend to be regulated by a common regulatory mechanism
85
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If glucose is absent, but so is lactose, the lac operon will be ________

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repressed

86
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Post-translational control refers to:

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regulation of gene expression after translation

87
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Post-translational modifications of proteins can affect which of the following?

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protein function

88
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Prokaryotic cells lack a nucleus. Therefore, the genes in prokaryotic cells are:

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transcribed and translated almost simultaneously AND transcriptionally controlled

89
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The binding of ________ is required for transcription to start

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RNA polymerase

90
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What will result from the binding of a transcription factor to an enhancer region?

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increased transcription of a distant gene

91
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Which of the following are involved in post-transcriptional control?

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  • control of RNA shuttling
  • control of RNA stability
  • control of RNA splicing
92
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Which of the following would you expect to find in an inducible system?

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A repressor protein, which is bound to DNA in absence of any other factor

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