Mutations Altering the Amount of Protein Synthesized from a Reporter

question 39

Multiple Choice

Mutations altering the amount of protein synthesized from a reporter construct occur most often in which of the following sequences of DNA?

• A)the reporter gene
• B)cis-acting DNA elements
• C)X-gal coding sequence
• D)RNA polymerase II gene
• E)None of the choices is correct.

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