Acting out

I really do not understand the difference between the cis-acting sequences and trans-acting sequence. I read many definitions but is still not clear for me. Any idea of simple and easy explanation that I could understand?:D

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... homework questions. I have no idea where/how to start to figure these out. You have isolated several yeast mutants unable to metabolize galactose. ... a. – e. below, use the description to determine whether it is: a cis-acting mutation of a regulatory sequence for GAL2 itself (“cis”); a trans-acting ...

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... have also clearly stated http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/about14351-480.html There are random mutations that rearrange the DNA of the ... inconsistent with the evolutionary model of natural selection acting on random mutations. It appears to me that you are raising straw man ...

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... Graves Disease, a thyroid disorder that caused him to be hyperthyroid about 8 years ago. He had his Thyroid irradiated and started taking generic ... us it wasn't the medication but once his thyroid stabilized he stopped acting schizophrenic (although we suspect he just started keeping his crazier ...

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... a start to the system seen now hasn't, so far as I know, been worked out. I agree with you about the RNA world having been one of the main theories. ... the first genetic molecule. He went on to suggest that RNA, besides acting as a template, might also act as an enzyme and, in so doing, catalyze ...

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