Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Lecture, chapter 4 - Genes, Genomes, and DNA

Today we covered most of chapter 4.

The main topic we covered was non-coding DNA. We talked about interspersed elements (LINEs, which are moderately repetitive, and SINEs, which are highly repetitive), and tandem repeats (satellites, minisatellites [or VNTRs], and microsatellites [or STRs]). We also talked about junk and selfish DNA, palindromes, hairpins, and stems and loops.

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