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Operons

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 12mins

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1.

You want your bacterial culture to grow well so you made an enriched media with all forms of carbohydrates. Which of this carbohydrate should you restore first if you want the culture to keep growing at the same rate?

a)

Glucose

b)

Lactose

c)

Galactose

d)

Fructose

2.

Which of these operons is anabolic?

a)

Lac

b)

Ara

c)

Trp

d)

Phe

3.

Which of these systems give the best mode for turning trp operon off?

a)

Repressor

b)

Attenuator

c)

Repressor with a downstream poly A tail

d)

Repressor with an attenuator

4.

A Lac repressor is a tetramer repressed when bound to the inducer. The trp repressor is a ____________________

a)

Dimer inactivated when bound to the inducer

b)

Dimer activated on inducer binding

c)

Tetramer inactivated on inducer binding

d)

Tetramer activated on inducer binding

5.

When uncharged tRNA concentration is low what will you expect as the activity of tryptophan operon?

a)

Low

b)

Medium

c)

High

d)

Very high

6.

We know that lactose has a positive impact on the activity of the lac operon. Tryptophan’s presence has a ________________

a)

Positive feedback

b)

Negative feedback

c)

No difference

d)

Highly positive impact

7.

Which segments of the attenuator together form the repression loop?

a)

Segment 1-2

b)

Segment 2-3

c)

Segment 3-4

d)

Segment 1-4

8.

Which of these properties do not agree with trp operon attenuator?

a)

It brings about repression of trp operon

b)

It consists of one stem loop system

c)

It has two codons for tryptophan in sequence

d)

Ribosome stalls at the attenuator

9.

Which of the Ara operon regulation site is actually preventing RNA polymerase from binding and producing the Ara genes BAD?

a)

O1

b)

O2

c)

P

d)

Z

10.

Which of these Ara genes is a mode of feedback autoregulation?

a)

Ara A

b)

Ara B

c)

Ara C

d)

Ara D

11.

Which of the Ara promoter regulation is controlled by binding of repressors on the O1 regulating unit?

a)

PA

b)

PB

c)

PC

d)

PD

12.

In negatively regulated operon the bound repressor will

a)

inhibit transcription

b)

Enhance the activity of RNA polymerase

c)

Facilitate transcription

d)

Decrease the enzymatic ectivity of RNA polymerase

13.

In the absence of glucose, the binding of CRP-cAMP complex to the region near to the lac promoter will

a)

No significant effect on the transcription of lac genes

b)

Cause the release of RNA polymerase from the promoter

c)

Decrease transcription of lac genes

d)

Increase transcription of lac genes

14.

The lac repressor have which of the following DNA binding motif

a)

Zinc Finger

b)

Homodomain

c)

Leucine zipper

d)

Helix-turn-helix

15.

The functional lac repressor is a

a)

Dimer of identical monomers

b)

Tetramer of two identical dimers

c)

Tetramer of identical monomers

d)

Trimer of identical monomers