Question for Week 9:
"How Multicellular Organisms Evolved I"

due: Thursday, March 26, at the beginning of class

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a) Explain how the expression of a structural gene is regulated. Define and include the following in your answer: promoter; regulatory gene; repressor; structural gene; transcription factor.

b) Explain why the expression of this structural gene might be altered by a mutation in the promoter region.


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