General Biology I · Module 15 · Gene regulation

Gene Regulation Walkthrough

Watch repressors grab operators, sugars pull them off, chromatin open and close, microRNAs silence messages, a protein gradient pattern a fly embryo and mutations pile up on the way to cancer. Go at your own pace. Nothing here is graded.

Speed

Think of it like this

Quick check

Wrong answers are fine here. Read why, then try again.

Dr. Akash Garg · General Biology I Study Tools · Drawings are simplified and not to scale. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Use the left and right arrow keys to move between steps. Molecules move much faster here than in a real cell, and numbers in the examples are made up for teaching unless a step says otherwise. Practise next in the Gene Regulation Lab.