BIOL308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cis-Regulatory Element, Chromatin, Collagen
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Use your uw (quest) userid and password to access. Lecture slides (powerpoint and pdf) course outline, announcements (up-dates, corrections), links, etc. Office hours: mon, wed : 11 12 pm. The combination of dna and associated proteins found in organisms. Gene: functional unit of heredity, the entire dna sequence necessary for the synthesis of a rna molecule or functional polypeptide. It includes coding and regulatory regions (up- and downstream) Processes through which the information carried by a gene is converted into observable product. ( observable product ?) Transmissible permanent change in nucleotide sequence of a chromosome - often in a gene - it may change or alters its function. An organism bearing a mutant gene that expresses itself in the phenotype (observable) Genome: all genes carried by a single gamete, a complete set of genetic information from a genetic system. Genotype: genetic constitution of an organism (all genes, also: alleles at one or more specific loci.