#17 You have isolated a gene that is important for the production of milk and wish to study its regulation. You examine the genomes of humans, mouse, dog, chicken, pufferfish, and yeast and note that all genomes except yeast have an orthologous gene. a)How would identify the regulatory elements important for the expression of your isolated gene in mammary glands? b)What does the existence of orthologous genes in chicken and pufferfish tell you about the function of this gene?
Gene Interactions
When the expression of a single trait is influenced by two or more different non-allelic genes, it is termed as genetic interaction. According to Mendel's law of inheritance, each gene functions in its own way and does not depend on the function of another gene, i.e., a single gene controls each of seven characteristics considered, but the complex contribution of many different genes determine many traits of an organism.
Gene Expression
Gene expression is a process by which the instructions present in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are converted into useful molecules such as proteins, and functional messenger ribonucleic (mRNA) molecules in the case of non-protein-coding genes.
#17 You have isolated a gene that is important for the production of milk and wish to study its regulation. You examine the genomes of humans, mouse, dog, chicken, pufferfish, and yeast and note that all genomes except yeast have an orthologous gene.
a)How would identify the regulatory elements important for the expression of your isolated gene in mammary glands?
b)What does the existence of orthologous genes in chicken and pufferfish tell you about the function of this gene?
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