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What is the significance of the promoter region in a gene?
What is the significance of the promoter region in a gene?
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What is the significance of the promoter region in a gene?
It codes for the protein
It is where RNA polymerase binds to initiate transcription
It terminates transcription
It is a coding sequence
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The promoter region is a specific sequence of DNA where RNA polymerase binds to initiate the transcription of a gene.
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The promoter region is a specific sequence of DNA where RNA polymerase binds to initiate the transcription of a gene.
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Step 1: Understand that genes are segments of DNA that provide instructions for making proteins.
Step 2: Know that transcription is the process where the information in a gene is copied to make RNA.
Step 3: Identify the promoter region as a special part of the gene located at the beginning.
Step 4: Realize that the promoter region has a specific DNA sequence that signals where transcription should start.
Step 5: Learn that RNA polymerase is an enzyme that binds to the promoter region to begin the transcription process.
Step 6: Conclude that without the promoter region, RNA polymerase would not know where to start, and the gene would not be transcribed.
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