The control of gene expression is more complex in multicellular e...

Question

The control of gene expression is more complex in multicellular eukaryotes than in prokaryotes because __________. (Explain your answer.)
a. eukaryotic cells are much smaller
b. in a multicellular eukaryote, different cells are specialized for different functions
c. prokaryotes are restricted to stable environments
d. eukaryotes have fewer genes, so each gene must do several jobs

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. So do the differential gene expression. The cells of a multicellular organism can have a different set of blank despite having the same blank now. The way that we're going to look at this problem is that what two cells of the same organism have in common. And if you're thinking D. N. A. Then you're completely right. All cells within the same organism have identical DNA. Because they come from the same original cell now because of this they should also have the same proteins that should be equal. However this is not true and this is due to differential gene expression. So how does this work? Well we have this DNA within each cell and they're able to select which genes are going to be expressed in each cell and what this is going to result in the expression of a gene is eventually going to result in a protein for me. So cells although they're going to have the same D. N. A. They're going to have different proteins in them because of differential gene expression. Because of this cells of a multicellular organism can have a different set of proteins despite having the same D. N. A. Which is represented by answer choice. I really hope this video helped you and I hope to see you on the next one

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