Biology 2581B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Eukaryote, Cytochrome C, Chromosome
12 Apr 2017
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Genetic modifications = how genetics has gone wonky e. g. rna editing, and nonstandard genetic codes, genome evolution, bioinformatics and what we may expect in the future when we think about genetics. Definition of a gene -> tricky -> here are the ones from google. A segment of dna encoding a protein. A discrete region of a chromosome encoding a protein or rna. Example of a gene/ review -> a gene on the human mitochondrial genome -> cox1 gene. Human nuclear genome is 3 billion bp long and mitochondrial genome is 16. 6 kb long. Is on the mitochondrial chromosome made of ds dna. Has a start codon (atg), a stop codon. If you want a product -> central dogma of genetics o. Transcribe: get a single strand of mrna that is the same length as the gene we are talking about o. Translate -> uses ribosome: now protein called cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 -> 513 aa o.
