Net primary productivity is commonly measured by harvesting a defined area of an ecosystem at the end of the growing season and determining the accumulated biomass of producers

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Hinkle and Chamberlin experiment showed that the polymerase holoenzyme binds much more tightly to the T7 DNA than does the core enzyme.

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Hinkle and Chamberlin experiment also showed that the melted DNA has higher affinity for holoenzyme

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A promoter is defined by the presence of short consensus sequences at specific locations.

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In the bacterial genome, the minimum length of promoter that could provide an adequate signal is 12 bp.  The minimum length required for unique recognition increases with the size of genome, a problem in eukaryotic genomes.

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The 12-bp promoter sequence need not be contiguous. 

If a specific number of base pairs separates two constant shorter sequences, their combined length could be less than 12 bp, because the distance of separation itself provides a part of the signal (usually 16-17 bp)

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