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Chapter 11 Active Reading Guide

Chapter 11 Active Reading Guide

Q Active Reading Guides: Under each week’s folder, you will notice active reading guides corresponding to chapters covered. Active reading guides are completed for bonus points, earning up to 5 points towards your final grade for completion of each. All active reading guides are available at the beginning of the semester and are due Monday, May 3rd at 11:59 PM.

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1. gene regulation 2. For example, one of the jobs of the liver is to remove toxic substances like alcohol from the bloodstream. To do this, liver cells express genes encoding subunits (pieces) of an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase. This enzyme breaks alcohol down into a non-toxic molecule. 3. False, the process in which genes can be turned on or off is gene regulation. 4. Yes, but it would be an inactive gene. 5. Bacteria respond to such variations in their environment by altering their gene expression pattern; thus, they express different enzymes depending on the carbon sources and other nutrients available to them.