BIOL 1107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: George Gamow, Karyotype, Polyploid

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Dna is transcribed to messenger rna by rna polymerase, and then messenger rna is translated to proteins by ribosomes. In this way, genetic information is converted from dna to rna to proteins. Each amino acid in a protein is specified by a group of three bases in messenger rna. Mutations are random changes in dna, ranging in extent from single bases to large chromosome regions, that may or may not produce changes in the phenotype. While the work of early geneticists, including mendel, watson & crick, and others, illuminated the structure of dna and genes, and the method of inheritance, biologists still did not understand how gene expression occurred. Gene expression is the process of translating the information in dna into functioning molecules within the cell. Early advances showed that genes carry the instructions for making and maintaining an individual.

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