The Texas legislature recently created a new Court of Appeals for the state of Texas. A description of the court is included below. (a) What might be the political reasons behind the creation of this new court? (b) Analyze the mechanisms of appointment to the court, and their likely effect on the court’s decisions, in comparison to the status quo before the new court. (c) Discuss whether or not the creation of the court is an example of autocratic legalism, comparing and contrasting this court to other examples we have discussed in class or read about.  

Which of the following conclusions can we confidently draw from the ideological scores of appointees to the Supreme Court since the 1950s: 

Dworkin believes the following about the law and judging:

Jessee, Malhotra and Sen 

Water-soluble hormones are inactivated and removed from the blood by the liver. 

How many different reading frames are possible for a stretch ofdouble- stranded DNA, assuming that we don’t know which strand is transcribed?

begins at specific sites in the genome

Who am I? Use the most correct term from the list below to fill in the blanks. Not all terms will be used!    sigma factor, alpha factor, beta subunit, DnaA, terminator, TFIID, TFIIF, TFIIB, TFIIH, stop codon, mediator, RNA polymerase I, RNA polymerase II, RNA polymerase III, connector, lac repressor, trp repressor, enhancer element, activator protein, response element, TATA box, Pribnow box, histone acetylase, histone deacetylase, histone methylase, protein kinase, snRNA, rho, effector, inducer, substrate   Please watch your spelling!   I bind a motif consisting of Ts and As in the promoter; in prokaryotes I am called [1] and in eukaryotes [2].   I provide a connection between proteins bound to regulatory regions that are far apart: [3]   I promote expression by binding an [4] that is located at a large distance from the start of transcription, I am an [5].   One of my functions in eukaryotic transcription initiation is that of a helicase: [6]   I am a small molecule that binds a transcription factor and thereby leads to activation or repression of gene expression: [7]  

Its phosphates are removed when transcription elongation begins

It is phosphorylated by TFIIH