Bill the explorer was hiking through the brazilian rainforest when he came upon a strange, new organism which had yet to be classified. it was small, with a mass of only 10 grams. bill noticed the organism was covered in feathers. after further investigation, bill discovered that although it did not fly, it had hollow bones. how should bill best classify this organism?

Bill should classify the organism as a bird.

Explanation:

It would be right for Bill to classify the newly discovered organism as a bird. This is because the birds are a category of animals which have feathers as well as hollow bones. As for the flying criteria, not all birds belonging to this category can fly. For example, ostrich and kiwi cannot fly but yet still belong to the category of birds, Hence, this newly found organism can be classified into birds as it has feathers and hollow bones.

step 1: initiation

initiation is the beginning of transcription. it occurs when the enzyme rna polymerase binds to a region of a gene called the promoter. this signals the dna to unwind so the enzyme can ‘‘read’’ the bases in one of the dna strands. the enzyme is now ready to make a strand of mrna with a complementary sequence of bases.

step 2: elongation

elongation is the addition of nucleotides to the mrna strand. rna polymerase reads the unwound dna strand and builds the mrna molecule, using complementary base pairs. there is a brief time during this process when the newly formed rna is bound to the unwound dna. during this process, an adenine (a) in the dna binds to an uracil (u) in the rna.

step 3: termination

termination is the ending of transcription, and occurs when rna polymerase crosses a stop (termination) sequence in the gene. the mrna strand is complete, and it detaches from dna.