Exam 21: RNA Synthesis, Processing, and Gene Silencing

The RNA type directly involved in protein synthesis is

Eukaryotic transcription promoters

Draw a picture of the gel electrophoresis results after DNA footprinting experiments on the following DNA strand.

Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) is generated from

Which is the correct order of mRNA degradation?

List the four ways that long noncoding RNAs are thought to function.

Different mRNAs can be obtained from the same gene by

Name the RNA molecules involved in protein expression and synthesis that are found in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, and name the RNA molecules involved in protein expression and synthesis only in eukaryotic organisms.

List the three main ways that eukaryotic mRNA molecules are processed before translation, which prokaryotic organisms to do not require.

Name the types of catalysis in ribozymes illustrated in the two figures below.

Of the following protein synthesizing RNA molecules, which codes for a protein?

The roles of U1, U2, U4, U5, and U6 in the spliceosome complex are to

The enzyme responsible for making siRNA is

Which is central to the addition of the 7-methylguanosine cap to mRNA?

The initiation of transcription in eukaryotes

Which class of RNA molecules is unique to eukaryotic organisms?

The initiation, elongation, and termination of eukaryotic transcription is controlled by the

Which biochemical lab technique is used in the DNA footprinting technique?

What do group I introns require that group II introns do not?

Weak prokaryotic promoters