Exam 16: Control of Gene Expression

You are studying the effects of specific transcription factors on the activation of gene expression.You notice that one particular transcription factor binds far away from the promoter of its target gene.What can explain this?

A cluster of functionally-related genes that are regulated together and encoded into a single mRNA molecule is called a(n)

Through control of gene expression, a bacterial cell responds to changing __________ conditions.

Histones that are tightly wound by DNA and are the basic unit of chromatin are called

The enzyme dicer chops dsRNA molecules into small pieces of

Vertebrate cells possess a protein that binds to clusters of 5-methylcytosine and ensures the gene will stay in the "off" position.This control of gene regulation is a result of