ILOs:

• Describe the central dogma of molecular biology
• Describe the structure of a gene
• Describe the process of transcription
• Define transcription factor and give examples
• Describe how gene expression is regulated (activated or repressed) and give an example of each
• Compare and contrast constitutive and inducible gene expression and give examples of each
• Explain how one gene can produce a number of different products and give an example
• Compare and contrast the genome, transcriptome, and proteome, and explain their clinical relevance

• The central dogma of molecular biology
• Structure of genes
• Process of transcription
• Transcription factors
• Regulation of gene expression
• Higher order levels of regulation of gene expression
• Types of gene expression
• How one gene produces multiple products
• Post-transcriptional regulation
• Genome, transcriptome, proteome