THINGS TO KNOW FOREVER...

Here are a few things that we touched on last Tuesday, and that you should always remember:

- genes have promoters

- transcription does not start at the AUG, and is not stopped by stop codons! (The RNApolymerase does not know the genetic code, it just transcribes until it hits a "transcription termination" signal)

- plasmids can exist as independent "mini-chromosomes" inside bacteria, or they may be integrated into a bacterial chromosome

- plasmids may carry, in addition to all the plasmid genes, some bacterial genes.

FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY:

we'll work on prokaryotic gene regulation (two main examples), bring your textbook and problem set#2!

Much more info on prokaryotic gene regulation will be posted in the next couple of days. For more info on the lac operon ...there are links on the right!

Cheers

Pam