Question - A biotech company has developed a new GM tomato plant. This plant has a gene introduced to protect the plant from insects. The promoter that expresses this gene is only active in leaf tissue and only from April to June to make sure that the gene product is not present in the fruit during harvest. Shown below is the sequence of the template strand of DNA that encodes the mRNA for this gene (assume there are no introns).
3'-GTCCTACATAGGATAGCCCCCAATAATTGCGCAAT-5'
Explain DNA, RNA, and the function of promoters, start and stop codons.
What are the processes leading from DNA to protein called? Name one regulatory mechanism.
Using the information presented in the problem above, determine the mRNA and the protein sequence that is produced from this gene in leaves during June.
Would this protein also be expressed in August? Explain your answer.