[BIOC15H3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (36 pages long)

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Geneticists study nature of genetic material, how it is inherited and examines how organisms pass biological info [in form of genes] to their offspring and how organisms use genes during their lifetime. Also, how it is used to direct cellular activity. Replicable and transmissable: make copy of it and be able to transfer to new generation. Crick won noble prize to find the structure of dna. There was large amount of dna and protein in nucleus of cells. Scientists saw under microscope that when cell divides into 2 cells, chromosomes appeared in nucleus and divided into 2 cells. Single stranded dna is polymer [lots of similarly structured molecules are put together by the same type of covalent bond to form a bigger structure] made up of nucleotides. Very stable because covalent bond is hard to break. Phosphate group: to put 2 nucleotides together: attached to c5 of.

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