CH19 assignments

CHAPTER 19: Eukaryotic Genomes

Reading: p. 359-381

Vocabulary: definitions for the bolded words in the CH19 text:

chromatin, nucleosome, heterochromatin, euchromatin, cell differentiation, differential gene expression, histone acetylation, genomic imprinting, epigenetic inheritance, control elements, transcription factors, enhancer, activator, repressor, alternative RNA splicing, microRNA (miRNA), RNA interference (RNAi), small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), oncogene, proto-oncogene, tumor-suppressor gene, ras gene, p53 gene, repetitive DNA, transposon, retrotransposon

Questions: none.