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Genes
Gene Structure and Regulation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a gene? | A gene is a segment of DNA that codes for a particular protein, which then codes for a specific trait. |
| What are Structural genes? | Genes that produce proteins that become the Structure and functioning of organism. |
| What are Regulatory genes? | Genes that produce proteins which control the action of other genes. |
| What is one of the roles of Regulatory genes? | Determines whether genes are active or not (on or off) and if active , what rate their products are produced. |
| What does the Regulatory gene do if a gene is active? | Determines/controls what rate their products are produced. |
| The ........... region for DNA is not ............. | The coding region for DNA is not continuous. |
| Exon is? | the coding region of a gene. |
| Intron is? | the non-coding region of a gene |
| How can mutations occur? | When there is a random change in one of the bases? |
| What does the random change in one of the bases create? | A new sequence of amino acids |
| What caj this new sequence of amino acids now create? | A completely different protein being produced. |