Regularory Genes

Question 1

Activators bind to

Answer 1

Enhancers

Question 2

Ways to create different cell types

Answer 2

Cytoplasmic determinants

Induction by a nearby cell

Question 3

Determined

Answer 3

Irreversible

Committed to a pathway

Question 4

Differentiated

Answer 4

On its way to specificity

Question 5

Many regulatory genes are

Answer 5

Conserved

I.e. Same gene across evolution

Question 6

Tumor suppressor genes

Answer 6

Prevents a cell from dividing unless conditions are right

Mutation of this gene = cancer

Question 7

Conditions for cancer

Answer 7

Oncogenes

Loss of suppressor genes