GENE STRUCTURE Flashcards
1
Q
What are the two main gene regions?
A
Promoter and coding region
2
Q
What is the core promoter?
A
Determines whether a gene can be transcribed
3
Q
What is the coding region?
A
Controls what the gene product does
4
Q
What does the eukaryote structure consist of?
A
- upstream regulatory sequence
- downstream “ “
- promoter
- Tata box
- exons and introns ( coding region)
5’ 3 ‘ cap
5
Q
What is the structure of a prokaryotic gene?
A
- regulatory gene
- promoter
- Oberon (coding region)
Structural gene
