Question

Need a little help/guidance with this question.

Answer 1

rifampin is a common antibiotic which is used to treat infections realated to tuberculosis, caused by mycobacterium. The pharmacology of this drug is that it inhibits the initiation of transcription, but plays no role in the elongation of RNA transcription. The time evolution of an E.coli rRNA operon after being exposed to rifampin is shown in Figure 2.
Use this figure to calculate (approximation) the rate of transcript elongation.
Figure 2A is the starting point of transcription.

Answer 2

never done calculations on this before x.x

Answer 3

though i get everything hmmm

Answer 4

Well, the first part of the question asked how many RNA polymerase molecules are there per cell. I don't know if knowing that information will help.

Answer 5

Which I calculated already. But not sure if it's correct.

Answer 6

hmmm @Frostbite maybe you can help?

Answer 7

Seems like there should be more info

Answer 8

nope.

Answer 9

We it is asking for rate but it does not seem that there is any info on the time scale in the figure.