Zusammenfassung der Ressource
genes
- expression highly regulated
- the functional unit that codes for a particular protein
- regulatory region called the promoter
- used to control when/how much of the gene is transcribed
- includes a terminator that tells polymerase when to stop transcribing
- transcription factors can have both possitive and negative control on transcription
- Operon
- a series of genes that are transcribed at the same time in one multi-gene mRNA and are controlled by the same promoter
- common in prokaryotes