Regulation of Gene Expression

AP Biology· difficulty 3/5

Tightly packed (heterochromatin) DNA is

A
$Currently undergoing replication$
B
$Generally transcriptionally silent$
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C
$Actively undergoing translation$
D
$Highly transcriptionally active$

Explanation

Compacted DNA is inaccessible to transcription machinery. Euchromatin (loose) is more transcriptionally active.

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