Chapter 16 Key Terms

• p. 350: homeostasis, stem cells
  
• p. 351: transcriptional control
  
• p. 352: posttranscriptional controls, promoter
  
• p. 353: major groove, structural motifs, helix-turn-helix
  
• p. 354: recognition helix (plural, helices)
  
• p. 355: homeodomain, zinc fingers, leucine zipper
  
• p. 357: operon, repressor
  
• p. 358: transcriptional activator
  
• p. 359: catabolic activator protein (CAP), lac operon, operator
  
• p. 361: transcription factors, DNA-binding domain, regulatory domain
  
• p. 362: enhancers
  
• p. 364: nucleosomes, methylation
  
• p. 365: primary transcript, RNA processing, RNA splicing
  
• p. 366: translation repressor proteins