AMME1362 Lecture 7: AMME1961 Ch7 Notes
17 Oct 2018
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Genetics term that refers to the study of genes and their roles in inheritance. Process done to manipulate the genome of an organism in order to produce desired traits. 2 strategies include up-regulation, which is the process of a cell increasing the quantity of a cellular component such as rna or protein, in response to an external variable and down-regulation, which is v. v. Promoter: a region of dna that initiates transcription of a particular gene. Transcription factor: (sequence-specific dna-binding factor) is a protein that binds to specific dna sequences, thereby controlling the rate of transcription of genetic information from dna to messenger rna. Mrna for a specific gene, thus stopping production of protein. This is a therapeutic approach to treat infectious diseases or genetic disorders, such as those that result from the inappropriate and undesirable activity of a gene, as in many cancers.
