June 2012
Beginner
382 pages
11h 7m
English
Content preview from Essentials of Molecular Biology
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Nucleic Acids
CONCEPT OUTLINE
- Introduction
- DNA and RNA as Genetic Materials
- DNA
- RNA
- Structure of Nucleic Acids
- The chemical nature of DNA and RNA
- Keto-Enol tautomerism of the nitrogenous bases
- Nucleosides
- Pyrimidines exist entirely in the anti-conformation
- Chargaff rule
- Nucleotides
- The primary structure of DNA
- Watson and Crick model of DNA – secondary structure of DNA
- The DNA grooves
- DNA conformations
- B-DNA
- A-DNA
- Z-DNA
- Triple standard DNA
- Cruciforms or Holliday junction
- Tertiary structure
- Properties of the DNA
- Physical properties of the DNA
- Chemical stabibility of nucleic acids
- DNA Topology
- Linking, twisting and writhing
- Topoisomerases
- Types of RNA
- Types of DNA
- The chromosomal DNA
- The autosomal DNA
- Y-DNA
- Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) ...
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