Insulators can block the effects of enhancers only when they lie:

A. within the structural genes.
B. within a consensus sequence.
C. adjacent to a promoter.
D. between an enhancer and a promoter.
E. upstream of a promoter.


Ans: D. between an enhancer and a promoter.

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