BIOLOGY:THE ESSENTIALS (LL) W/CONNECT
BIOLOGY:THE ESSENTIALS (LL) W/CONNECT
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Chapter 7, Problem 11WIO
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To determine:

The ways by which a roundworm cell is able to silence the unneeded genes.

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Gene silencing is a mechanism of reducing the expression of a particular gene. It can be done either during transcription or translation. Caenorhabditis elegans consists of 556 cells at the time of hatching, but each cell expresses only a subset of the genes, and they become specialized only in a particular function.

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