Question
A factor involved in this process, U2AF, recognizes the poly·pyrimidine tract sequence. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this process, which features the ligation of a donor site to a branch site during its canonical form. This process is mainly facilitated by snRNPs (“snurps”).
ANSWER: RNA splicing [accept canonical splicing]
[10h] During canonical splicing, prospective intron removal sites can be identified using this rule, which is named for the highly conserved 5’ (“five prime”) and 3’ (“three prime”) dinucleotide sequences flanking most splice sites. Name either nucleotide sequence used to name this rule.
ANSWER: GU-AG rule [accept GT-AG rule; accept guanine in place of “G”; accept adenine in place of “A”; accept thymine in place of “T”; accept uracil in place of “U”; accept either underlined portion]
[10e] After undergoing splicing and other post-transcriptional modifications, mature mRNA will progress through this process. Ribosomes synthesize proteins using information encoded by mRNA during this process.
ANSWER: translation [or translating]
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Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 75% | 63% | 25% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago A | Northwestern B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame B | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Illinois C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois B | Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Notre Dame A | Notre Dame C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana A | SIUE | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana B | WUSTL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |