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Select all that apply. Horizontal gene transfer can include when a gene is acquired….

What is a major difference between the general transcription factors and regulatory transcription factors?

What enzyme relaxes supercoiling ahead of the replication fork in bacterial cells?

Pick ONE of the following essay prompts and thoroughly respond to it using complete sentences.Prompt 1: Answer the three following questions:What is a nucleosome-free region?Where are they typically found in a genome?How are nucleosome-free regions thought to be functionally important?Prompt 2: Answer the following questions:What is alternative splicing?What is its biological significancewhy would it be advantageous to a cell/organism?Prompt 3: Answer the following questions:What is a CpG island?Where would you expect one to be located?How does methylation of CpG islands affect gene expression?

The presence of telomeres at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes is important because they:

A functional eukaryotic protein is typically made up of the information contained within what region of pre-mRNA?

Polyploidy is most common and best tolerated in:

Using the codon table, CAU is the codon for the amino acid, ____________, the anticodon would be ___________.   

Which of the following is found in the origin of replication area of prokaryotes and plays a role in the initiation of DNA replication?

A eukaryotic cell is found to lack functional flap endonuclease (FEN1). Explain how this would affect replication of the lagging strand.