PSY397H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Advanced Sleep Phase Disorder, Arntl, Molecular Genetics
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Midterm is next week: chapter 5, readings o, p, q. Clock genetics: a history: neurospora and drosophila molecular clocks, mammalian molecular clock. This lecture will not be on the exam next week. Lecture notes: molecular mechanisms - a comparative, functional view. Living things have created circadian rhythms --> and they must adapt to it. The other systems must adapt to the clocks. In modern-day organisms, almost every biochemical system in a cell or cell system is rhythmic in some way, independently of the environment or other cells. In mammals, it"s thought all cells have indiv cells and must sync with envir and system. How does that system communicate with other cells. There is a core group of genes and proteins that are critical to clock operation. Most simple design --> you need something core and simple for complexity to built off of it.
