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#Question id: 2994


If a cell has completed meiosis I and the first cytokinesis, and is just beginning meiosis II, which of the following is an appropriate description of its genetic contents?

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
  1. It has half the amount of DNA as the cell that began meiosis.

  2. It has half the chromosomes but twice the DNA of the parent cell.

  3. It has one-fourth the DNA and one-half the chromosomes as the parent cell.

  4. It is genetically identical to another cell formed from the same meiosis I event.

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#Question id: 4506

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Which process is very much similar to polyadenylation, because its takes place by the multiple protein complexes,

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#Question id: 4507

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

A group of introns that-unlike those we have considered thus far-can splice themselves out of pre-mRNA without the need for the spliceosome, they are called

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#Question id: 4508

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Statement: In the case of group II introns, the chemistry of splicing and the RNA intermediates produced are the same as those for nuclear pre-mRNA.

 Explanations: I. The intron uses an A residue within the branch site to attack the phosphodiester bond at the boundary between its 5’ end and the end of the 5’ exon-that is, at the 5’ splice site. This reaction produces the branched lariat.

II. A second reaction in which the newly freed 3’ -OH of the exon attacks the 3’splice site, releasing the intron as a lariat and fusing the 3’ and 5’ exons.

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#Question id: 4509

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Which group of introns contain an “internal guide sequence”

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#Question id: 4510

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Which statements are true about group I and group II introns,

A. Group I (and II) introns are not enzymes because they have a turnover number of only 1.

B. A third transesterification reaction can occur to cyclize the intron.

C. They cannot be readily converted into ribozymes.

D. It is similar to the way that the self-cleaving Hammerhead could be converted to a ribozyme by separating the active site from the substrate

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#Question id: 4511

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

The proteins are not needed for the splicing reaction itself, because