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#Question id: 4140


Which of the following statements about bacterial mRNA is true?

#SCPH28 | Zoology
  1. A ribosome usually initiates translation near the end of the mRNA that is synthesized last.

  2. An mRNA is never degraded but is passed on to the daughter cells at cell division.

  3. During polypeptide synthesis, ribosomes move along the mRNA in the direction 5'  3'.

  4. Ribosomes cannot initiate internally in a polycistronic transcript.

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#Question id: 5754

#SCPH28 | Zoology

A cell is exposed to EMS (a mutagen that causes guanine to mispair with thymine) and allowed to undergo a few rounds of DNA replication.  The mutational event caused by this mutagen will be

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#Question id: 5755

#SCPH06 I Botany

A researcher studying bacterial toxin predicts that a lysine within the toxin is important for binding it’s target cell.  She used site-directed mutagenesis to change a codon for lysine (AAA) to one for asparagine (AAU).  However, the mutant toxin still binds to its target cell just as well as the wild-type toxin bound and appears to have no other changes. This type of mutation is probably

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#Question id: 5755

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#Question id: 5756

#SCPH06 I Botany

Type of mutation caused by an addition or deletion of a base in a polypeptide-encoding part of a gene

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#Question id: 5756

#SCPH28 | Zoology

Type of mutation caused by an addition or deletion of a base in a polypeptide-encoding part of a gene

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#Question id: 5757

#SCPH06 I Botany

A new E. coli mutant was tested for auxotrophy. The mutant grows on:

minimal medium (M) + arginine (A) + proline (P)

M + P + histidine (H)

M + A + H + P

but not on M or on M + A + H. The mutant requires