H Biology - Unit 1 - KA5 - Structure of the Genome

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What is the genome?

The genome of an organism is it’s entire hereditary information encoded in DNA

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What are genes?

Genes are DNA sequences that code for proteins

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What are genomes made up of?

Genomes are made up of genes and other sequences of DNA that do not code for proteins

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What are the “other sequences” in the genome?

These “other sequences” are called non-coding sequences

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What is most of the eukaryotic genome made up of?

Most of the eukaryotic genome is non-coding sequences

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What do non-coding sequences do?

Non-coding sequences regulate transcription and produce transcribed but not translated RNAs (rRNA and tRNA).