Friday, December 10, 2010

Lecture, chapter 4 - Genes, genomes, and DNA



Organization of the human genome
from Allison, L. 2007. Fundamental Molecular Biology. Blackwell Publishing.
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Today we followed our discussion on how DNA is organized in genomes (second stop in our roadmap), including a discussion on satellite DNA (satellites, minisatellites, and microsatellites), palindromic DNA (mirror-like palindromes, inverted repeats, hairpins, stem-and-loops), junk and selfish DNA, and supercoiling.

On Monday we'll discuss how eukaryotic DNA is compacted enough to fit the nucleus of a cell

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