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Cell Biology

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Set 16 Regulation Of Transcription In Prokaryotes

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Question 1

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Which of the following is an example of negative regulation?

A)A gene is switched on in the presence of an activator.
B)A gene is de-repressed.
C)A gene is induced.
D)A gene is switched off by a repressor protein.

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Question 2

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Transcriptional elements that bind to a DNA molecule where the gene they regulate is located areــــــــــــــ .

A)trans-acting elements
B)cis-acting elements
C)positive regulators
D)negative regulators

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Question 3

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Gratuitous inducers ــــــــــــــــــــــــ.

A)are metabolized like the natural inducer
B)are not broken down
C)are nutrient sources
D)are competitive inhibitors

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