Explain how a transcriptional fusion to a reporter gene, combined with site directed mutagenesis, can indicate key nucleotides in a regulatory region. Name one in vitro technique that can be used to further confirm the significance of these regions.

Explain how a transcriptional fusion to a reporter gene, combined with site directed mutagenesis, can indicate key nucleotides in a regulatory region. Name one in vitro technique that can be used to further confirm the significance of these regions.

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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.

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