LIFESCI 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noncoding Dna, Lac Operon, Human Genome
23 Mar 2018
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Homologous genes - similar genes in humans, mice, flies. Nucleotides make up the dna which is transcribed into rna which is translated into proteins. Parts of genes that aren"t translated, but they"re still important. Transcribed into rna but not translated by the ribosome trna, rrna. They"re essential parts of the machinery but never translated. To understand potential health risks, ancestry, but wouldn"t want the data to be publicly available. May spend entire life living in fear that you might get alzheimer"s just because you have the gene but that doesn"t mean you"ll necessarily get it it. Don"t want to know that information, overwhelming to know about health risks. A gene is a locatable region of genomic sequence, corresponding unit of inheritance which is associated with regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions. A gene is a union of genomic sequences encoding a coherent set of potentially overlapping functional products. Also known as: a dna molecule with function.
