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100

These types of chromosomes are maternal and paternal copies of a pair in a diploid cell.

What is Homologous?

100

Considering one of the most prevalent forms of DNA damage, this chemical reaction releases purine bases by the hydrolysis of N-glycosidic bonds.

What is Depurination?

100

Eukaryotic cells have this many different RNA polymerases.

What is 3?

100

Region of the tRNA that recognizes and interacts with codons on mRNA.

What is the anti-codon loop?

200

This structure includes chromatin, histones, and other non-histone proteins.

What is a Nucleosome?

200

This enzyme breaks the phosphodiester backbone to prevent DNA tangling during replication. 

What is DNA topoisomerase?

200

This sequence in a promoter region of Eukaryotic DNA binds general transcription factors and is where transcription is initiated.

What is TATA box?

200

The general transcription factor that facilitates DNA unwinding at the transcriptional start site, as well as releasing RNA polymerase II after the phosphorylation event to the enzyme's CTD. 

What is TFIIH?

300

This type of heterochromatin can be regulated to control gene expression.

What is facultative heterochromatin?

300

In this class of transposable elements, the mode of movement is via an RNA intermediate that is often synthesized from a neighboring promoter.

What is non-retroviral retrotransposons?
300

In bacterial cells, this component binds to the core enzyme and indicates where transcription should begin.

What is sigma factor?

300

A quality control process that looks for bound exon junction complexes after the ribosome reaches a stop codon to determine if the mRNA is defective and should be tagged for degradation.  

What is nonsense-mediated mRNA decay?

400
This term indicates stretches of conserved gene order in chromosomes.

What is Synteny?

400

This protein complex hides telomerase from the cell damage detectors that continually monitor DNA. 

What is shelterin?

400

An enzyme used by Eukaryotes in transcription initiation that is responsible for synthesizing all protein coding genes, as well as several other functional RNA's.

What is RNA Polymerase II?

400

Two processes the cell uses for controlled degradation.

What is activation of a ubiquitin ligase and activation of a degradation signal?

500

The total number of histone subunits in a nucleosome.

What is 8?

500

During transcription and DNA replication, this histone chaperone can aid in assembly and disassembly of nucleosomes.

What is FACT (Facilitates Chromatin Transcription)?

500

A process that is associated with ATP hydrolysis and has a role in increasing accuracy of the spliceosome.

What is kinetic proofreading?

500

This site of a ribosome, when a stop codon is present, will allow release factors to bind and terminate transcription.

What is the A site?