THE CELL
CELL COMMUNICATION
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Question
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What class of macromolecules are transcription factors?
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carbohydrates
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nucleic acids
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proteins
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lipids
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Transcription Factors and Combinatorial Control Transcription factors (TFs) are regulatory proteins whose function is to activate (or more rarely, to inhibit) transcription of DNA by binding to specific DNA sequences.
Detailed explanation-2: -What type of macromolecule are transcription factors? Transcription factors are composed of proteins.
Detailed explanation-3: -During transcription, DNA is used as a template to make a molecule of messenger RNA ( mRNA ). The molecule of mRNA then leaves the nucleus and goes to a ribosome in the cytoplasm, where translation occurs.
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