GENE STRUCTURE

Question 1

What are the two main gene regions?

Answer 1

Promoter and coding region

Question 2

What is the core promoter?

Answer 2

Determines whether a gene can be transcribed

Question 3

What is the coding region?

Answer 3

Controls what the gene product does

Question 4

What does the eukaryote structure consist of?

Answer 4

• upstream regulatory sequence
• downstream “ “
• promoter
• Tata box
• exons and introns ( coding region)
  5’ 3 ‘ cap

Question 5

What is the structure of a prokaryotic gene?

Answer 5

• regulatory gene
• promoter
• Oberon (coding region)
  Structural gene