BIOL 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Central Dogma Of Molecular Biology, Metabolomics, Nitrogenous Base

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10 Feb 2020
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The central dogma of molecular biology is: dna->mrna->protein. The dna itself gives information about the genotype while metabolomics and which proteins are created gives detail about the phenotype. Dna has three functions: acts as genetic info, can be passed down to offspring, can be expressed as phenotype. The basic building block of dna is the nucleoside which consists of a nitrogenous base and a sugar. Either deoxyribose or ribose is used as the sugar. The sugars can have 1 of 4 nitrogenous bases attached to it. Deoxyribose can have a,t,c or g while ribose can have a,u,c or g. nitrogenous bases can either be 2 ringed purines (adenine, guanine) or 1 ring pyrimidine (cytosine, thymine, uracil). A nucleotide consists of a sugar, a nitrogenous base and a phosphate group. Overall, a nucleotide is pretty soluble in water, the sugar and phosphate group in the nucleotide are soluble in water.

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