Molecular Biology of the Gene 7th Edition by Richard Losick, James Watson, Michael Levine, Tamara Baker, Alexander Gann

Exercise 14

Consider the experiment in which the expression of two copies of the same gene are measured using the green fluorescent protein reporter for the first copy of the gene and red fluorescent protein reporter for the second copy of the gene in E. coli cells. Provide an example of intrinsic versus extrinsic noise observed for this system.