Becker's World of the Cell 9th Edition by Lewis Kleinsmith, Jeff Hardin, Gregory Paul Bertoni

Exercise 5

Locating Promoters. The following table provides data concerning the effects of various deletions in a eukaryotic gene coding for 5S rRNA on the ability of this gene to be transcribed by RNA polymerase III.

(a)What do these data tell you about the probable location of the promoter for this particular 5S-rRNA gene
(b)If a similar experiment were carried out for a gene transcribed by RNA polymerase I, what kinds of results would you expect
(c)If a similar experiment were carried out for a gene transcribed by RNA polymerase II, what kinds of results would you expect