HTHSCI 1LL3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Phosphodiester Bond, Human Genome Project, Adenosine Triphosphate
24 Feb 2016
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Because of the progress of the human genome project, there are many new and exciting implications for diagnoses and treatment of illnesses. It is especially important for healthcare professionals to have a good understanding of basic genetics since there are likely to be many new treatments that exploit this knowledge. There are treatments right now for cancer and bacterial infection based on genetic knowledge. Dna transcription to rna (intermediate) and its translation into the protein is known as the central dogma of molecular biology, which is a field closely related to biochemistry. Loop in diagram: before a cell can divide the dna must be replicated. It refers to the information flow for biological systems which goes in the direction from dna to protein (cannot go the other way). Deoxyribonucleic acid (dna) and ribonucleic acid (rna) are the source of genetic information for humans, plants and animals, as well as bacteria and viruses.
