BIOLOGY 171 Chapter 1: BIO READING GUIDE 1

• School: U of M
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOLOGY 171
• Professor: Josephine Kurdziel

Document Summary

Required reading checklist: course syllabus, pre-lecture reading guide (below, chapter 1. 2-1. 4; pp. 39-45: chapter 3 intro, 3. 1, 3. 2 (a dna strand ), 3. 3 (in transcription ), 3. 4 (messenger rna & 50-54, 60, 63-64: chapter 3 figures: 3. 3, 3. 11, 3. 13, 3. 14; pp. 53, 58, 59, 60: animation: the central dogma, chapter 4 intro, fig. Vocabulary (you should be able to de ne and use all of these terms correctly. ) amino acid: an organic molecule contains a central carbon atom, a carboxyl group, and amino group, a hydrogen atom, and a side chain. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins anti-codon: the sequence of three nucleotides in a trna molecule that base pairs with the corresponding codon in an mrna molecule. Dna replication: the process of copying dna so genetic information can be passed from cell to cell or from an organism to its progeny: dna has another remarkable feature.