Abstract:
"Many fundamental questions in biology investigate the growth and development of living
organisms. Though there is immense diversity in the life forms, the basic mechanism of
development is astonishingly the same. The vital genes involved are conserved across species
indicating the intricate and precise manner of regulation of these genes. Dissecting the
mechanism of gene regulation is of immense importance as it improves our understanding of
the conserved yet diverse and flexible nature of the various developmental processes such as
cellular differentiation and patterning. The molecular mechanism behind gene regulation was
initially explained by the Central Dogma of Life (1) which explained how a gene through an
intermediate RNA molecule, the messenger RNA, produces a functional protein that drives
the cellular process."
