Biology 210
GENETICS
Friday, 20 March, 1998

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Learning Objectives:

1.To know what is meant by the "Central Dogma" of Molecular biology, and where this phrase came from, historically.


2. To be able to outline the information transfer, from DNA to future generations (replication), DNA to RNA (transcription) and RNA to proteins (translation).


3. To be able to list three four characteristics that distinguish RNA from DNA.


4. To be able to draw a simple, crude sketch of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase, with all the subunits, and show where the -10, -35, and -60 regions of the DNA bind.


5. To be able to list and explain the function of the three four different types of RNA.


6. To know that eukaryotic genes are "split", and to be able to describe exons and introns.

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