From Around 130,000 to About 30,000 Year Ago, Neanderthals Occupied

question 36

Multiple Choice

From around 130,000 to about 30,000 year ago, Neanderthals occupied which of the following regions/continents?

• A) Africa
• B) Europe and Western Asia
• C) South America
• D) The Americas
• E) North America only

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Definitions:

Post-transcriptional Modification

The process of chemical changes to RNA transcripts after synthesis, affecting their stability, localization, and translation into proteins.

Poly-A Tail

A stretch of adenine nucleotides added to the 3' end of a newly synthesized pre-mRNA molecule in eukaryotic cells, protecting the mRNA from degradation and aiding in its export from the nucleus.

DNA Molecule

The carrier of genetic information, consisting of two long chains of nucleotides twisted into a double helix.

Promoter

In DNA, a sequence that is a site where RNA polymerase binds and begins transcription.