Lecture 3.2 Competencies and Study Guide
Vocabulary
- Centromere
- Telomere
- Metacentric
- Submetacentric
- Acrocentric
- p arm
- q arm
- Gene
- Locus
- mRNA
- tRNA
- Sense strand
- Promoter
- Coding region
- TATA box
- Exon
- Intron
Competencies
- Describe the anatomical structures of chromosomes.
- Explain how chromosomal loci are designated.
- Identify a given chromosome as metacentric, submetacentric and acrocentric.
- Describe the central dogma of molecular genetics.
- List the 3 contiguous sections of a protein coding gene.
- Describe the role of a gene promoter.
- Describe the function of a gene’s TATA box.
- Describe the function of a gene’s coding region.
- Compare and contrast exons and introns.
- Identify the start sequence for the coding region of a coding gene.
- Identify the ending sequence of a coding gene.
- Compare and contrast genome organization of prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
- Describe how much of eukaryotic DNA is actually coding region.
- Describe how much of a eukaryotic gene’s coding region is exon, on average.