Promoter
Ex: Tata box
Chargoff’s Rules
Relate amounts of bases
dA=dT and dC=dG
Splice donor
GU (1st) 5’
Splice acceptor
AG (2nd) 3’
Lariat
intron spliced out (“A” branch point)
Enhancer
Can be far ways. Increase the activation of the Pol. Increasing basal level of transcription
Cis regulatory element
DNA binding site (on DNA itself)
Trans regulatory element
proteins that bind to CIS regulatory elements
- Ex: Transcription factors
Activators
Bind to it Enhancers
Regulatory sequence
regulates the rates at which transcription of the gene occurs
Extragenic DNA
- role in regulation
Tandem Repeats
Setellite, Minisatellite (telomeric, Hypervariable), Microsatellite
(VNTR and STR)
Insterspersed
SINE and LINE (50% of genes)
Area of gene density
Subtelomeric region
VNTR and STR
- fingerprinting
SINE
LINE
- have reverse transcriptase (Transposable elements)
Pseudogenes
genes that are not expressed
P arm
q arm
- long arm
Metacentric Chromosome
Centromere in center
- Chrom 1
Submetacentric Chromosome
Centromere off to one side
- Chrom 4
Acrocentric Chromosome
Centromere near the end
- Chrom 13, 14,15,21,22
Uniparental disomy
Both pairs of Chromosomes from one parent