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cascade regulation

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: cascade regulation
(ka′skād ′reg·yə′lā·shən)

(cell and molecular biology) In prokaryotes, a form of genetic regulation in which one operon codes for the production of an internal inducer that turns on one or more operons. In eukaryotes, a multistep model of genetic regulation involving mechanisms that interface with messenger ribonucleic acid formation, transport, and translation.


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