Describe Guidelines to Follow for a Well-Designed Coding System

question 31

Essay

Describe guidelines to follow for a well-designed coding system.

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Definitions:

Housekeeping Genes

These are genes that are constantly active in the cell to maintain basic functions and cellular metabolism.

Feedback Inhibition

A process where the end product of a metabolic pathway acts as an inhibitor of an enzyme within that pathway, regulating its own production.

Posttranslational Control

Regulation of gene expression that controls activity or functions of proteins, usually by phosphorylation or other chemical modifications of the protein. Compare with transcriptional-level control, translational-level control, and posttranscriptional control.

Translational Control

The regulation of protein synthesis in a cell by various mechanisms that act on the process of translating RNA into protein.