You Are Working with a Gene Associated with an Essential

question 46

Multiple Choice

You are working with a gene associated with an essential pathway that is necessary at two time points in an organism's lifetime.With regard to gene regulation,you would expect the gene to be

• A)not constitutive.
• B)associated with response to distinct events.
• C)"activated" by particular signals (induced).
• D)"turned off" by particular signals (repressed).
• E)all of the above

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