A plant produces flowers that are open through the day and the night. An experimenter places pollen on the stigmas of freshly opened flowers and covers them after pollination to prevent natural pollinators from having access to the flowers. When experimental pollination was carried out during the day, 40% of the flowers yielded fruit. When experimental pollination was carried out during the night, 80% of the flowers yielded fruit. However, when flowers were  kept  open  to  natural  pollination  during  the  day  (covered  at  night),  35%  of  flowers  produced  fruit.  20%  of flowers exposed to natural pollination during the night (covered during the day) produced fruit. Which of the following statements is NOT a plausible explanation of these results ?

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Which two polymerases function in transcriptional repression directed by nuclear siRNAs in plants?

#Question id: 4662

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Transcriptional activation by Pol II initiates transcription, polymerase pauses after transcribing fewer than 100 nucleotides due to the action of the elongation inhibitor such as

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

In bacteria two components regulatory systems contain a domain can have function such as controlling the direction in which the bacterium swims in response to a concentration gradient of nutrients is known as

#Question id: 4660

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Two-component system regulating response to low Gln,

a) Glutamine dissociates from the sensor domain in the NtrB protein, leading to activation of a histidine kinase transmitter domain in NtrB

b) glutamine binds to a sensor domain of NtrB, causing a conformational change in the protein that inhibits its histidine kinase activity, the regulatory domain of NtrC blocks its DNA-binding domain from binding the glnA enhancers.

c) Activated transmitter domain of NtrB that transfers the γ-phosphate of ATP to a histidine residue (H), this phosphohistidine then transfers the phosphate to an aspartic acid residue (D) in the NtrC protein

d) This causes a conformational change in NtrC that unmasks the NtrC DNA-binding domain so that it can bind to the glnA enhancers

Which of the following combination is correct?

#Question id: 4659

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Many bacterial responses are controlled by two component regulatory systems. What will happen at the high concentration of glutamine and at the low concentration of glutamine?

a) At high concentrations glutamine binds to a sensor domain of NtrB conformational change in the protein that inhibits its histidine kinase activity

b) NtrC phosphorylation takes place causes a conformational change in NtrC that unmasks the NtrC DNA-binding domain so that it can bind to the glnA enhancers

c) At the same time, the regulatory domain of NtrC blocks its DNA-binding domain from binding the glnA enhancers

d) At low concentrations of glutamine dissociates from the sensor domain in the NtrB protein, leading to activation of a histidine kinase transmitter domain

Which of the following given combination is correct?

#Question id: 4561

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Which factor recruits capping enzyme?