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Links for Lecture 1, September 2:
Lecture I -- Introduction -- What is Molecular Genetics?
DNA as information and an overview of gene expression.
Homology, model species and Boveri's precondition
Handout (pdf of the syllabus in abbreviated form)
Hiding DNA in microdots (information in DNA is digital):
Hiding messages in DNA microdots Catherine Taylor Clelland, Viviana Risca, and Carter Bancroft Nature 399 ( 6736 ), 533-4 ( 10 Jun 1999 )
Background reading in Chemistry.
Chapters 2 and 3 of Alberts Molecular Biology of the Cell.
The panels in chapters 2 and 3 are especially good, and you can find them online
For example:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov /books/bv.fcgi?rid=mboc4.box .181
Other URLs in the presentation.
Course page (I also reviewed the links on the top bar).
HA oxidase protein: accession NP_000178 on NCBI, map, Gene Ontology, UniProt, OMIM entry for alkaptonuria and Conserved Domain HgmA.