Question

What is a recognition sequence?

Answer 1

Answer:

REALLY laymen… It’s a genetic sequence along a strand of DNA (think -C-T-G-C-A-) that is recognized and read like a word that means “dock here and copy everything after to build the protein you need.”

There is also a stop sequence that will end copying. DNA is like a giant cookbook or repair manual for creating everything you need to build and maintain the body. You don’t need to read the whole book.

You only need to find the section. You might also imagine that section heading is the recognition sequence or perhaps imagine the recognition sequence as a term/word in bold in a dictionary and the part copied would be the definition.

Answer 2

Answer:

A recognition sequence is a DNA sequence to which a structural motif of a DNA-binding domain exhibits binding specificity. Recognition sequences are palindromes. The transcription factor Sp1 for example, binds the sequences 5'-GGGCGG-3', where indicates that the domain will bind a guanine or thymine at this position.