Selective gene expression
What Selective gene expression means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The process by which the same genetic information produces distinct outcomes, so differentiation is not a change in the genes present.
The means by which differentiation usually produces adaptations, rather than loss of genes.
Topics that use Selective gene expression
- Cell division, cell diversity and cellular organisation (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- anaphase
- Asexual reproduction and cloning
- Checkpoint control mechanisms
- Chromosome behaviour during division
- Consequences of loss of cell-cycle control
- Cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases
- differentiation
- DNA replication in S phase
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