Objectives and Overviews for Gene Expression Part 1

This lesson describes the steps involved in a cell as DNA sequence information is read to make RNA and RNA is read to make proteins. A gene will only control a trait in an organism when the gene is expressed. This means the gene is read in the cell to make a protein that carries out a specific function. This lesson describes the basic steps in the gene expression process.

At the completion of this lesson you should be able to....

1. Define the roles of DNA and proteins in cell development and metabolism
2. Determine the amino acid sequence of a protein given the nucleotide sequence of a gene.
3. Describe the roles that the promoter, coding region and termination sequence of a gene play in gene expression.
4. Recognize the differences between the structure of proteins, amino acids, genes and nucleotides.
5. Draw the process of gene expression and include the following in your drawing. Gene, RNA polymerase, promoter, coding region, termination sequence, intron, cell, nucleus, cytoplasm, mRNA, tRNA, ribosome, anticodon, codon, amino acid, protein, peptide bond.