CHEM 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Gregor Mendel, Central Dogma Of Molecular Biology, Dna Replication

• School: University of Arkansas
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 1103
• Professor: Matthew Gerner

Document Summary

The study of the chemistry behind biological processes and the synthesis of biologically active molecules are examples of biochemistry: often this can be inferred by the absence of a normal component (e. g. one gene). The study of "mutants" organisms which lack one or more functional components with respect to the so-called. Genetic interactions (epistasis) can often confound simple interpretations of such. "knock-out" studies: the central dogma of molecular biology where genetic material is transcribed into. Rna and then translated into protein, despite being an oversimplified picture of molecular biology, still provides a good starting point for understanding the field. We now expand that to include more features of what is taking place in a cell. We know rna can influence transcription of other rna molecules (not all rna is used to make protein). We also know that proteins can influence transcription and translation processes. Further some viruses can undergo reverse transcription from rna to dna.