Lesson 5: Regulation of Gene Expression
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
Explain how regulatory sequences, transcription factors, and environmental cues influence gene expression in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
How do inducible operons (like the lac operon) differ functionally from repressible operons (like the trp operon)?
How do epigenetic modifications, such as DNA methylation and histone acetylation, alter gene expression without altering the genetic code itself?
6.5- Regulation of Gene Expression
Understand how prokaryotes use operons to rapidly adjust their metabolism to their immediate environment, and how eukaryotes use complex, multi-level controls to ensure that different cell types (like skin cells vs. liver cells) only express the specific genes they need.
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Unit 6 Test