Key Area 5 Flashcards
1
Q
What is a genome
A
The Genome of an organism is it’s entire hereditary information encoded in DNA.
2
Q
What’s a gene
A
DNA sequences that code for protein are defined as GENES. These sequences are tran-
scribed to produce the Primary mRNA transcript during protein synthesis.
3
Q
What do non-coding sequences do
A
regulate transcription
or are transcribed
but never translated. E.g tRNA and rRNA are non-translated forms of RNA
