9/21/2019 Preclass Quiz 7: Fa19 - MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (47940)

Preclass Quiz 7
Due Sep 19 at 11am Points 10 Questions 10 Available Sep 17 at 5pm - Sep 19 at 11am 2 days Time Limit None

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Question 1 1 / 1 pts

Which of the following is true about the regulation of the trp operon?

Correct! All of the choices are true.

An aporepressor is involved.

Negative control is involved.

Attenuation is one of the mechanism of control.

A corepressor is involved.

Question 2 1 / 1 pts

Identify the nonallosteric protein.

trpR

promoter

operator

Correct! beta-galactosidase

repressor

Question 3 1 / 1 pts

Which of the following is an example of an allosteric interaction?

Correct! both A. allolactose binding to a repressor and B. an aptamer binding to a riboswitch

polymerase binding to the promoter

allolactose binding to a repressor

repressor binding to the operator

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an aptamer binding to a riboswitch

Question 4 1 / 1 pts

In the process of creating a trp operon mutant, the region for the riboswitch was accidentally deleted. Which of the following would be a
likely observation in the transcription assays?

Termination would be triggered.

RNA polymerase cannot bind to the promoter.

The operon is permanently inhibited.

The chance of an aptamer binding to the mRNA 5-UTR increases.

Correct!
Attenuation would be impaired.

Question 5 1 / 1 pts

The ara operon is controlled by the _____________ protein.

Correct!
AraC

malT

Allolactose

LacI

Question 6 1 / 1 pts

________ is a term used to describe a mechanism in which a protein controls it's own regulation.

Activation

Negative regulation

Correct!
Autoregulation

Repression

Question 7 1 / 1 pts

Which of the following could alter the specificity of binding of a repressor with an operator?

nucleotide deletion at the operator and nucleotide addition at the operator only

nucleotide deletion at the operator

Correct!
nucleotide deletion at the operator, nucleotide addition at the operator, and site directed mutagenesis at the operator

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site directed mutagenesis at the operator

nucleotide addition at the operator

Question 8 1 / 1 pts

Which of the following are true about the interactions of the repressor with the major groove?

Hydrophobic interactions are involved.

Electrostatic interactions stabilize hydrogen bonds.

Hydrogen bonds are involved and Hydrophobic interactions are involved are correct.

Hydrogen bonds are involved.

Correct!

A. Hydrogen bonds are involved, B. Electrostatic interactions stabilize hydrogen bonds, and C. Hydrophobic interactions are involved are all correct.

Question 9 1 / 1 pts

The tryptophan repressor is composed of tryptophan and an aporepressor.

Correct!
True

False

Question 10 1 / 1 pts

Attenuation causes the length of the RNA molecules to be significantly extended.

True

Correct!
False

Quiz Score: 10 out of 10

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