Transcription/translation — Flashcards

Flashcard 61: What is the function of histone acetylation?

Answer: relaxes DNA coiling, allowing transcription mnemonic: Acetylation Activates

Flashcard 62: What is the effect of histone methylation?

Answer: represses transcription and "silences" nearby DNA mnemonic: Methylation Mutes

Flashcard 63: What are the characteristics of euchromatin?

Answer: uncondensed, transcriptionally active, sterically accessible

Flashcard 64: _____ proteins are specific transcription factors that bind to cAMP response elements (CREs) to cause a response to cAMP

Answer: cAMP response element binding (CREB)

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Flashcard 65: Does Poly-A polymerase require a template (post-transcriptional processing)? _____

Answer: No

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Flashcard 66: Eukaryotic _____ help assemble the 40s ribosomal subunit with the initiator tRNA

Answer: Initiation Factors

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Flashcard 67: The direction of protein synthesis is _____-terminus to _____-terminus

Answer: N

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Flashcard 68: After translation, the S, M, and E proteins of coronavirus are transported to _____

Answer: the Golgi apparatus

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Flashcard 69: Where is most of rRNA synthesized? _____

Answer: Nucleolus

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Flashcard 70: What is the function of the D-arm of tRNA? _____

Answer: Recognition of tRNA by the correct aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase

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