Control of Gene Expression Flashcards
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Study of changes in gene expression that are stable over rounds of cell division and sometimes over generations but do not involve changes in the underlying genetic sequence
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Epigenetics
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Set of all transcripts in a given organism
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Transcriptome
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Occurs in lysine residues of amino tails; causes decrease in binding between histones and DNA
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Histone covalent modification
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Molecule which maintains work of DNA methyltransferase
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DNMT1
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Methylation of _____ leads to silencing of gene expression
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CpG islands
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Used to direct DNA methylation at sites other than transposable elements
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piRNA
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Used as scaffold for histone modification
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Long noncoding RNA
