Question 1

Which statement about Rho protein is true?

Accepted Answer

A) Rho helps separate RNA polymerase from the DNA. 
B) Rho protein is involved in Rho-dependent transcriptional termination. 
C) Rho protein is frequently found in bacteriophages. 
D) All of the above. 
A) Rho helps separate RNA polymerase from the DNA. 
B) Rho protein is involved in Rho-dependent transcriptional termination. 
C) Rho protein is frequently found in bacteriophages. 
D) All of the above. D

Question 2

The Sigma subunit of RNA polymerase binds to theــــــــــــــــــــــــ .

Accepted Answer

A) -10 and -35 sites 
B) enhancer 
C) RNA 
D) +1 
A) -10 and -35 sites 
B) enhancer 
C) RNA 
D) +1 A

Question 3

Large ribosomal RNAs are transcribed byــــــــــــــــــــ .

Accepted Answer

A) RNA polymerase I 
B) RNA polymerase II 
C) RNA polymerase III 
D) None of the above 
A) RNA polymerase I 
B) RNA polymerase II 
C) RNA polymerase III 
D) None of the above A

Question 4

The eukaryotic promoter recognized by RNA polymerase II contains three regions.Which of the following is not part of the trio?

Accepted Answer

A) TATA box 
B) upstream elements 
C) initiator box 
D) Enhancer 
A) TATA box 
B) upstream elements 
C) initiator box 
D) Enhancer

Question 5

Constitutive genesـــــــــــــــــ .

Accepted Answer

A) are usually not transcribed unless they are needed 
B) are only found in eukaryotes 
C) are constantly transcribed 
D) are only found in prokaryotes 
A) are usually not transcribed unless they are needed 
B) are only found in eukaryotes 
C) are constantly transcribed 
D) are only found in prokaryotes

Question 6

Transcribe the following sequence of DNA located on the coding strand:
5'-ACGGTACATT-3'

Accepted Answer

A) 5'-ACGGUACAUU-3' 
B) 3'-ACGGUACAUU-5' 
C) 5'-UGCCAUGUAA-3' 
D) 3'-UGCCAUGUAA-5' 
A) 5'-ACGGUACAUU-3' 
B) 3'-ACGGUACAUU-5' 
C) 5'-UGCCAUGUAA-3' 
D) 3'-UGCCAUGUAA-5'

Question 7

Which enzyme is responsible for transcribing most eukaryotic protein-encoding genes?

Accepted Answer

A) RNA polymerase I 
B) RNA polymerase II 
C) RNA polymerase III 
D) None of the above 
A) RNA polymerase I 
B) RNA polymerase II 
C) RNA polymerase III 
D) None of the above

Question 8

Transcription occurs in theــــــــــــــــــ of eukaryotes and theــــــــــــــــــ of prokaryotes.

Accepted Answer

A) nucleus;nucleus 
B) cytosol;cytosol 
C) nucleus;cytosol 
D) cytosol;nucleus 
A) nucleus;nucleus 
B) cytosol;cytosol 
C) nucleus;cytosol 
D) cytosol;nucleus

Question 9

Transcription is the process of transferring the information in ــــــــــــــــــــــtoــــــــــــــــــ .

Accepted Answer

A) DNA;DNA 
B) DNA;RNA 
C) RNA;DNA 
D) RNA;Protein 
A) DNA;DNA 
B) DNA;RNA 
C) RNA;DNA 
D) RNA;Protein

Question 10

The ـــــــــــــــــــــis the site on the DNA where RNA polymerase binds to initiate transcription.

Accepted Answer

A) promoter 
B) enhancer 
C) 5' UTR 
D) origin 
A) promoter 
B) enhancer 
C) 5' UTR 
D) origin

Which statement about Rho protein is true?

The Sigma subunit of RNA polymerase binds to theــــــــــــــــــــــــ .

Large ribosomal RNAs are transcribed byــــــــــــــــــــ .

The eukaryotic promoter recognized by RNA polymerase II contains three regions.Which of the following is not part of the trio?

Constitutive genesـــــــــــــــــ .

Transcribe the following sequence of DNA located on the coding strand: 5'-ACGGTACATT-3'

Which enzyme is responsible for transcribing most eukaryotic protein-encoding genes?

Transcription occurs in theــــــــــــــــــ of eukaryotes and theــــــــــــــــــ of prokaryotes.

Transcription is the process of transferring the information in ــــــــــــــــــــــtoــــــــــــــــــ .

The ـــــــــــــــــــــis the site on the DNA where RNA polymerase binds to initiate transcription.

Cells and Organisms

Basic Genetics

DNA, RNA, and Protein

Genes, genomes, and DNA

Manipulation of Nucleic Acids

Polymerase Chain Reaction

Recombinant DNA Technology

DNA Sequencing

Genomics Systems Biology

Cell Division and DNA Replication

Processing of RNA

Protein Synthesis

Protein Structure and Function

Proteomics

Regulation of Transcription in Prokaryotes

Regulation of Transcription in Eukaryotes

Regulation at the RNA Level

Analysis of Gene Expression

Plasmids

Viruses

Mobile DNA

Mutations and Repair

Recombination

Bacterial Genetics

Molecular Evolution

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Exam 11: Transcription of Genes

Which statement about Rho protein is true?

The Sigma subunit of RNA polymerase binds to theــــــــــــــــــــــــ .

Large ribosomal RNAs are transcribed byــــــــــــــــــــ .

The eukaryotic promoter recognized by RNA polymerase II contains three regions.Which of the following is not part of the trio?

Constitutive genesـــــــــــــــــ .

Transcribe the following sequence of DNA located on the coding strand: 5'-ACGGTACATT-3'

Which enzyme is responsible for transcribing most eukaryotic protein-encoding genes?

Transcription occurs in theــــــــــــــــــ of eukaryotes and theــــــــــــــــــ of prokaryotes.

Transcription is the process of transferring the information in ــــــــــــــــــــــtoــــــــــــــــــ .

The ـــــــــــــــــــــis the site on the DNA where RNA polymerase binds to initiate transcription.

Cells and Organisms

Basic Genetics

DNA, RNA, and Protein

Genes, genomes, and DNA

Manipulation of Nucleic Acids

Polymerase Chain Reaction

Recombinant DNA Technology

DNA Sequencing

Genomics Systems Biology

Cell Division and DNA Replication

Processing of RNA

Protein Synthesis

Protein Structure and Function

Proteomics

Regulation of Transcription in Prokaryotes

Regulation of Transcription in Eukaryotes

Regulation at the RNA Level

Analysis of Gene Expression

Plasmids

Viruses

Mobile DNA

Mutations and Repair

Recombination

Bacterial Genetics

Molecular Evolution

Filters