You are studying the rate of transcription of a particular eukaryotic gene. When the DNA located several thousand bases upstream from the gene is removed, the transcription rate of the gene decreases dramatically. How would you interpret these results?
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.
You are studying the rate of transcription of a particular eukaryotic gene. When the DNA located several thousand bases upstream from the gene is removed, the transcription rate of the gene decreases dramatically. How would you interpret these results?
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