in class review topics Flashcards
eukaryotic genes are mono or polycistronic
monocistronic
what is an operon
a collection of genes under the control of a particular regulatory gene
what is a regulon
a bunch of operons under the control of a regulon
do bacteria have histones?
no they have histone-like proteins
what is the protein that allows for the start of replication at the ori site?
DNAa
what causes the warts in verucomicrobia?
warts are caused by actin filiments
partitioning of low copy plasmids are separated by what?
ParM
dideoxy nucleotides is used in what kind of sequencing
sanger sequencing
what does sigma do?
help rna poly find the dna promoter
rifampin inhibits what
rna polymerase and thus transcription
what does the EFTU do in protein synthesis?
catalyzes the binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the A-site
true or false sec-A is on both gram-positive and negative bacteria
true
why are ORFs useful
Researchers can scan the genome for open reading frames to find genes that encode proteins
