Genetic 342 A&B

Kenneth G Wilson

Professory of Botany

One of the great questions was "How does the genetic information get converted into cellular action?" The solution was the coming together of genetics and biochemistry forming the new field of molecular biology. The Central Dogma that followed was information went from

DNA --> RNA -->PROTEIN

• Statement of the problem or hypothesis formation
• Cracking the code
  • Homopolymers
  • Mixed Polymers
  • Mixed Copolymers
  • Triplet Binding
• Mutation as a tool
• Transcription
• Translation
• Modification

This is our friend Oliver the parrotlet,

Oliver is a true parrot,

the smallest in the world.