RNAi’ stands for which of the following?

The RNAi pathway is found in many ————-

RNAi is triggered by —————–

dsRNA stand for ———–

The process of RNA inactivation by siRNAs is termed as ___________

Dicer is an endonuclease that cleaves __________ during the process of RNA-interference.

RNAi is a ————– process

A process that researchers call silencing is —————–

is a self-defense mechanism of eukaryotic cells, which especially prevents infection evoked by viruses.

During RNAi, long dsRNA is cut into small fragments ~21 nucleotides long by an enzyme called—————-

During RNAi, long dsRNA is cut into small fragments ————- long by an enzyme.

Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won a Nobel Prize in 2006 for their work, begun in the late 1990s, on RNA interference. Which of the following organisms did they work on?

The term RNA interference (RNAi) was coined to describe a ————– mechanism

are central to RNA interference

Each siRNA is unwound into ————– single-stranded RNAs (ssRNAs)

How many types of small ribonucleic acid (RNA)?

Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) or ——————-

Which regulates the expression of protein-coding genes?

Which initiates the RNAi in the cell’s cytoplasm?

How many dsRNA pathways?

Which of the following statements best describes the function of RNAi?

Double-stranded RNA is cleaved by a nuclease called Dicer and small fragments are generated known as ___________

Downregulation of expression of endogenous genes by transformation with constructs that would generate sense RNA, rather than anti-sense RNA is known as ___________

siRNA are generated by __________

Dicer is __________