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MicroRNAs block the expression of a specific gene product by binding to the ___________ and inhibiting ___________.

Many transcriptional regulators function together to decide the expression level of a particular gene. This describes the concept of

A reporter gene is an experimentally engineered regulatory DNA sequence from a gene of interest that has been fused to a gene that encodes a protein that is easily observed experimentally. Why is this approach useful?

A housekeeping gene is a gene whose cellular function is

Mutations in which of the following elements would abrogate RNA polymerases ability to activate gene expression?

How does Polymerase help maintain the accuracy of DNA replication?

Shown below is the end of a newly replicated chromosome. Which strand will telomerase elongate?

If a stretch of DNA on the parental strand of a replicating chromosome has the sequence 5AGCTCGATCGGCTA3, what will the sequence of the newly synthesized strand made from this stretch of template be?

What is the relationship between genome size and organismal complexity?

Which of the labels in the following figure shows a nucleosome core particle?