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Unit 19: Gene regulation

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Do you think of bacteria as boring blobs? How about as little calculators? Bacterial gene regulation networks essentially perform logic operations using proteins and DNA. Learn more about how bacterial genes are organized and how their expression is regulated.
In multicellular eukaryotes (like you!), each type of cell in the body must express its own unique set of genes. Learn more about the many ways that eukaryotic gene expression can be regulated.
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