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General Transcription Factors (GTFs) have what 3 roles?

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General Transcription Factors (GTFs) have three roles: recruiting RNA polymerase to initiate transcription, regulating the frequency of transcription through enhancer regions, and responding to environmental stimuli to initiate transcription of specific genes.

Step-by-step explanation:

The three roles of General Transcription Factors (GTFs) are:

  1. Binding to the promoter region on the DNA molecule and recruiting RNA polymerase to initiate transcription.
  2. Regulating the frequency of transcription by interacting with enhancer regions, which can be upstream, downstream, or within a gene itself.
  3. Responding to environmental stimuli and initiating transcription of specific genes by binding to a particular DNA sequence motif on the promoter.

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