Help with Promoters

Practice Questions

GRE Subject Test: Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology › Help with Promoters

Questions
6
1

Where are promoters typically found in DNA?

2

What proteins enhance transcription by promoting the recruitment of transcription factors and stabilizing the RNA polymerase holoenzyme at the promoter?

3

What regulatory element promotes RNA polymerase II binding as well as binding of factors that facilitate the unwinding of DNA prior to translation?

4

Which of the following does not represent a feature of bacterial transcription that is not found in eukaryotic transcription?

5

__________ are regions of DNA, located __________ of a gene, that will increase its expression.

6

In a hypothetical situation, the enhancer region of gene X, which controls tail length in mice, is mutated such that transcription factors bind to the enhancer region at a much higher efficiency than if the region were wild-type. What is a reasonable phenotypic outcome possible from this mutation in gene X's enhancer region?

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