The site for protein binding may be quite distant from where the protein acts. By what mechanism is the protein bound to the distant “regulatory binding site” most likely to interact with the RNA polymerase bound to the promoter sequence?

You create an E. coli mutant that has a two bp deletion between -10 and -35 elements of the merT promoter. In the absence of mercury, which of the following outcomes do you expect?

How does RNA polymerase “know” where to start transcribing a gene?

A point mutation refers to a change in the sequence of nucleotides in a gene.

The cells in the human body are very specialized (e.g. the neuron, the muscle cell). This can be explained by ________

Activation domains include all of the following except:

Which of the following statements about the bacterial ribosome is NOT true?

The elongation factor for prokaryotes that helps with translocation is:

Essay: Choose two different topics (from two different recorded lectures) covered in our class this week [module 3] and connect them to each other using biological terminology. Be specific and use obvious examples from the lectures.  [400 words required]

In snapdragons, a pure breeding with red flowers is crossed with a pure breeding plant with white flowers. The resulting plant from this cross has pink flowers. This pattern of inheritance is explained by _______