Effective population size(Ne)

Effective number of breeding adults in a population.

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-10 and -35 Elements subscript denotes the percent occurrence of the most frequently found base, which varies from 45% to 96%.

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A consensus sequence is, in each case a version of the sequence having at each position the nucleotide (or amino acid) most commonly found. consensus sequence was derived by aligning 300 sequences known to function as s70 promoters and ascertaining the most common base found at each position in the –35 and –10 hexamers.

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Mechanism: How Polymerase Find Promoter Sequences

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Sigma inhibits non specific binding of holoenzyme so fourth slides rapidly over non promoters sequences but binding strongly to promoters

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Sigma factor has four binding regions over DNA.