Objectives of the Lectures of Thursday the 5th and Tuesday the 6th of April 2011.
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At the end of these two lectures, the student should be able to:
- Name the types of nucleotides
- Describe base pairing in and double helix
- Describe the process of gene replication.
- List the steps of DNA replication
- Indicate the significance of Meseleson and Stahl experiments
- Show how replication process is contoled by licensing and geminin
- Differentiate between replication and endoreplication.
- Contrast between polyploidy and polyteny.
- Describe thw process of gene transcription.
- Name the different types of RNAs
- Describe mRNA and tRNA
- Name non-coding RNA
- List the different types of RNA polymerases
- Describe RNA processing
- Explain the process of splicing
- Describe antisense RNA
- Discuss gene translation
- List the characteristic of genetic code
- Indicate the exceptions to genetic code.
- List the steps of translation
- Discuss quality control in translation
- Describe regulation of translation by processing bodies and exosomes.
- Discuss the gene regulation in Eukaryotes and prokaryotes.
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