10.2. A Brief Molecular Biology Background
One does not have to delve deeply to appreciate the intricacies, complexity, and interrelatedness of biological systems. A good place to start for those who do not have a background in genetics and molecular biology is the free publication “Primer on Molecular Genetics” published June 1992 by the U.S. Department of Energy. This publication is available online at http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/primer/toc.html. Two other Internet sources are http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/primer/intro.html and http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/toc_expand.html#alpha. (Much of the overview in this section is drawn from the “Primer on Molecular Genetics.”)
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