Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Lecture, chapter 8 - Nucleic acids

Today we finished the chapter we started yesterday, on nucleic acids.

Yesterday we talked briefly about the history of the study of nucleic acids and some of the basic structure and functions of nucleic acids , including a comparison of the characteristics of DNA and RNA.

Today we talked about the implications, for the understanding of genetics, of the discovery of the structure of DNA in the 1950s, the process of DNA replication, the mechanism in which DNA is compacted into chromosomes.

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