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Held BIO 1402 Test 2 - ch. 11 and 12
ch. 11 and 12
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
03/25/2012

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Gene Expression
Definition
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Cellular Differentiation
Definition
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Operon
Definition
One unit of operation in regulation
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Operator
Definition
Section of DNA where the repressor binds
-"cow on DNA railroad tracks"
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Promoter
Definition
-made of DNA
-RNA Polymerase binds here
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Repressor
Definition
-Protein that binds operator and lactose
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Structrual Gene
Definition
DNA which codes for a protein
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Inducer
Definition
Sugar molecule (lactose) which binds repressor protein
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Enhancer
Definition
-made of DNA, DNA control sequences
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Histone
Definition
-protein important in DNA packing
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Nucleosome
Definition
-made up of 8 histones with DNA wrapped around
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Exon
Definition
- parts of a gene in RNA that are expressed, coding regions
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Intron
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-non coding regions of RNA
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Splicing
Definition
-when introns are removed from RNA and exons are joined together
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RFLP's
Definition
-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
-serve as genetic markers for particular loci
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PCR
Definition
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
-Amplify DNA
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DNA Fingerprinting
Definition
-uses RFLP's
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