BIOL 205 Lecture Notes - Neospora, Escherichia Coli, Meiosis
27 Sep 2013
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Specifying the amino acid sequence of a protein. Dna replication, mutation, and the processing of the information specified by the. Dna continue through the life of the organism. Structure of organisms and their active physiological processes are based for the most part on proteins, which are synthesized based on genetic information found in dna. There are 4 kinds of nucleotides in dna: adenine (a), thymine (t), guanine (g), and cytosine (c) Dna is composed of 3 nucleotide chains held together by complementary pairing of. There are 4 properties that characterize genetic information: diversity of structure. Nucleotides can be in any order and dna can be any length: ability to replicate. Pairing of the complementary strands results in 2 identical copies of the original double helix being produced: mutability. When an incorrect base is put in or bases are lost/duplicated. New copy of dna and all succeeding copies will be different causing a heritable mutation: translation into form and function.
