enhancer

(noun)

a short region of DNA that can increase transcription of genes

Related Terms

  • activator
  • repressor

Examples of enhancer in the following topics:

  • Transcriptional Enhancers and Repressors

    • In some eukaryotic genes, there are regions that help increase or enhance transcription.
    • These regions, called enhancers, are not necessarily close to the genes they enhance.
    • When a DNA-bending protein binds to an enhancer, the shape of the DNA changes.
    • An enhancer is a DNA sequence that promotes transcription.
    • Each enhancer is made up of short DNA sequences called distal control elements.
  • Improve Listener Engagement, Comprehension, and Memory

    • Sensory enhancements may help your audience to become more engaged and to better understand and remember your presentation.
    • Listeners will be more engaged if you understand your audience and tailor your sensory enhancements to them.
    • This is most effective when a sensory enhancement is used as a method of repeating an idea.
    • Sensory enhancements are also a powerful way of enhancing the memory of your audience.
    • Discuss how sensory enhancements can improve listener engagement, comprehension, and memory
  • Utilizing Devices to Enhance Audience Understanding

    • Visual aids, microphones, video screens, and/or a podium can help enhance audience understanding.
    • With visual aids, a speaker needs to make sure they adequately enhance the presentation without causing a distraction for the audience.
    • When determining the type of visual aids needed for a speech, the speaker needs to consider the subject matter, audience, and venue so that the right materials are used to enhance audience understanding.
  • Constructive Team Conflict

    • Recognizing the benefits of conflict and using them as part of the team's process can enhance team performance.
  • Breast Augmentation and Reduction

    • Breast augmentation is surgical enhancement of the breasts to increase size, while reduction is surgical removal of tissue to decrease size.
    • Breast augmentation denotes the breast implant and fat-graft mammoplasty procedures for correcting the defects, and for enhancing the size, form, and feel of a woman's breasts.
    • Each augmentation approach corrects post–mastectomy defects in a breast reconstruction procedure; congenital defects and congenital abnormalities of the chest wall; and aesthetically enhances the natural size, look, and feel of the bust.
  • The Goals of a Persuasive Speech: Convincing, Actuation, and Stimulation

    • Persuasive speeches can be designed to convince, incite action, or enhance belief by the audience.
    • Persuasive speeches can also be used to enhance how fervently the audience believes in an idea.
    • Instead, they are trying to enhance the degree of belief.
  • Additional Resources

    • Critical Issue: Working Toward Student Self-Direction and Personal Efficacy as Educational Goals: Collection of many resources (including video clips) on how to enhance student self-efficacy (http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr200.htm).
  • Choice

    • Malone and Lepper (1983) suggest that providing explicit choices among alternatives can enhance intrinsic motivation.
    • These feeling-related valences can be factors that enhance the motivation of learning.
  • Revenues

    • Revenue is cash inflows or other enhancements of assets derived by delivering or producing goods.
    • Revenue is cash inflows or other enhancements of assets during a period from delivering or producing goods, rendering services or other activities that constitute an entity's ongoing major operations.
  • Customer Concerns

    • B2B companies typically implement client services or customer care processes to address customer concerns and enhance customer satisfaction.
    • Nearly every brand must have a client service or customer care process in place to address customer concerns and enhance customer satisfaction.
    • The Internet era has presented challenges in maintaining and enhancing the personal customer experience, while making use of the efficiencies of online commerce.
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