Molecular Biology I Notes

Description

Molecular Biology I Notes from semester 3 of BEng in Biotechnology (pdf format)

Notes are based on the semester 3 course of the same name, 10ECTS at College University Absalon (Denmark).

All notes are made by myself (Ariadna), and the notes and course are based on the books “Principles of Biochemistry” 8th ed. 2021, Macmillan International from Lehninger (ISBN 9781319381493) and “Brock Biology of Microorganisms” Global ed. 16th ed. 2021, Pearson from MT Madigan et al. (ISBN 9781292404790)

CONTENT

• The structure and function of nucleic acids
• The genetic code
• Recombinant DNA technology
• DNA replication and repair
• Transcription and RNA processing
• Protein synthesis, tRNA, ribosome structure and function
• The control of gene expression, lac-operon
• Bacterial recombination and virus replication/infection
• The structure and function of chromatin
• Introductory Bioinformatics
• Gene expression and regulation in advanced Eukaryotes