Unit 1.5 - The Structure of the Genome

• What is a genome of an organism?

  Hereditary information encoded in DNA
• What are genomes made up of?

  Genes and non coding DNA sequences
• What is most of the eukaryotic genome made up of?

  Non-coding DNA.
• What are genes?

  DNA sequences that code for proteins
• What do the non coding sequences do?

  Regulate transcription and others are transcribed but never translated