Describe three genetic mechanisms whereby proto-oncogenes can become overexpressed

What will be an ideal response?


Mutations can occur which cause an enhancement of the promoter or other upstream regulatory signals.

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From the following list of compartments and locations in the cell, build a pathway that a protein would follow from its initial synthesis to its secretion. Not all structures/compartments listed will necessarily be used

endoplasmic reticulum transport vesicle lysosome Golgi apparatus mitochondrion nucleus cytosol plasma membrane cell wall chloroplast What will be an ideal response?

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With respect to a gene with two alleles, for each generation of complete inbreeding the proportion of heterozygotes is expected to be reduced by while the proportion of each homozygous class is expected to increase in frequency by

Explain why this is so.

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Organic molecules that end in the suffix "-ase" often function as ________ molecules

A) structural B) enzymatic C) transport D) storage

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The process of predicting the tertiary structure of the unknown protein by aligning the amino acids of the unknown protein onto the corresponding amino acids in the protein whose structure is known is called:

A) denaturation B) self-assembly C) x-ray crystallography D) threading E) Chaperoning

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