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#Question id: 5768


Exposure to gamma radiation leads to severe damage to DNA.  The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans is able to survive exposure to levels of gamma radiation that would kill any other known organism.  This organism is able to survive because

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. it is covered with a very thick cell wall that blocks radiation

  2. it produces its own mutagens that quickly revert mutations that result from radiation exposure

  3. it has several very efficient DNA repair systems

  4. it has hundreds of copies of its chromosome so it has a good chance of at least one surviving

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#Question id: 4410

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

A key component of the eukaryotic transcription machinery called TFIID includes a

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#Question id: 4411

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

All of the following are associated with vertebrate promoters located in active chromatin EXCEPT

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#Question id: 4412

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

TATA less promoters without Inr and DCE are expressed

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#Question id: 4413

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Which of the following is true about TFIID?

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#Question id: 4414

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

The helicase of TFIIH hydrolyzes the β-γ bond of ATP to catalyze open complex formation at Pol II promoters. ATP hydrolysis is also required by a step subsequent to transcription initiation, most likely promoter clearance. Transcriptional activation by TFIIH was assayed on linear and circular templates either in the presence of ATP and GTP or the nonhydrolyzable nucleotide analogs AMP-PNP and GMP-PNP with RNA Polymerase I. The following results were obtained. Choose plausible explanation for these results. 

A. ATP is required under conditions where TFIIH is indispensable for initiation. These conditions include transcription from promoters containing a short stretch of mismatched base pairs surrounding the transcriptional start site as well as on negatively supercoiled templates.

B. As Pol I transcription on linear templates requires neither ATP hydrolysis nor protein phosphorylation

C. in contrast to Pol II, the topology of the template does not affect the requirement for TFIIH and neither the ATPase, helicase, nor protein kinase activity of TFIIH are required for Pol I transcription activation.

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#Question id: 4415

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

PML nuclear bodies are also sites of post-translational modification of proteins through the addition of