Which of the following statements regarding splicing in eukaryotes is correct?a) Several reactions in the splicing process involve hydrolysis of ATPb) Exons are spliced out and introns are retained in the mature mRNA transcriptc) Splicing takes place in the cytosold) Small nuclear RNAs are retained in the mature mRNA transcript

A newly identified protein from the  cells of the Panopyra plant on Pandora was shown to inhibit translation of its target genes by binding to the 5’ UTR of the mRNA and preventing ribosome binding.  A possible way this inhibition may be relieved by an sRNA would be:  Group of answer choices a)The sRNA acts as a silencer, suppressing the inhibitory protein and allowing translation to take place. b)The sRNA acts as a decoy, sequestering the inhibitory protein and allowing translation to take place. c)The sRNA acts as a marker, flagging the inhibitory protein for ubiquitination and allowing translation to take place.

First start with a pre-MRNA with four exons and three introns and diagram the splicing reactions leading to the four exons being spliced together (a) Second, show the following two alternative splicing diagrams that would produce (b) intron 2 retention, otherwise similar to part (a) (c) mutually exclusive exon (exon 1- either exon 2 or exon 3 -- exon 4) (d) exon 2 skipping, otherwise, similar to part (a). For part (d), explain how an SR protein could influence whether exon 2 is skipped. What would happen if SR binding to the exon 2 ESE was weak? Which MRNA isoform would be more abundant?

Which of the following statements is false? a mutation in a 5' or 3' splice site must alter the sequence of the protein encoded by a gene a missense mutations replaces one amino acid with a different amino acid a mutation in a promoter is unlikely to alter the sequence of the polypeptide encoded by a gene a mutation in a transcriptional terminator is unlikely to alter the sequence of a protein encoded by a gene. a frameshift mutation changes the sequence of a protein 0000