Overview
Gene Expression
Initiation
Elongation
Termination
100
The process of synthesizing RNA from a DNA template
What is Transcription?
100
The overall process for which the information within a gene is used to produce a functional product
What is gene expression?
100
The enzyme that binds to the promoter site that conducts transcription.
What is RNA Polymerase?
100
The substitute for the "T" nucleotide in transcription.
What is "U" or uracil?
100
The names of the two termination mechanism theories in eukaryotes.
What are the allosteric model and the torpedo model?
200
These carry the information for the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide
What are protein-encoding genes?
200
A site for beginning transcription
What is the promoter?
200
The site where gene transcription begins
What is the transcriptional start site?
200
The strand of DNA that is used for RNA synthesis.
What is the template strand?
200
Termination process that does NOT require the protein rho.
What is rho-independent termination?
300
The first product of transcription
What is mRNA?
300
Short stretches of DNA involved in the regulation of transcription
What are regulatory sequences (elements)?
300
The term used for the combination of RNA polymerase and sigma factor.
What is holoenzyme?
300
The completmentary code for the sequence "AGTC"
What is "UCAG"?
300
The protein responsible for terminating some instances of bacterial transcription.
What is rho?
400
The flow of genetic information
What is the central dogma of genetics?
400
The strand with the same sequence as the transcribed mRNA with U's in place of T's
What is the coding strand?
400
The 6th subunit that binds to RNA polymerase in bacterial transcription.
What is the sigma factor?
400
The direction in which RNA polymerase always connects nucleotides.
What is 5' to 3'?
400
The model of eukaryotic termination that suggests that RNA polymerase is physically removed from the DNA.
What is the torpedo model?
500
DNA sequences that influence whether a gene is turn on or off
What is a regulatory site?
500
Gene expression + environmental factors
What is an organism's traits?
500
The two sites in the promoter region of E. coli that are of particular importance.
What are the -35 and -10 sites?
500
The complementary strand for "TACT".
What is "AUGA"?
500
The term for the formation that forms in the RNA strand that causes RNA polymerase to pause during bacterial termination.
What is a stem loop?
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