HELP! - How to read genetics (Jan/16/2010 )

Hi, I'm a first year student and I have some questions I hope some of you can answer..

What is a "conserved upstream activating sequence" ?

Thank you in advance.


Ps: I'm a first year student, I can't help being ignorant.

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