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Chap 1. The basics of DNA
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Background
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• Genes are the units of heredity and are the Introduction
instructions. They code for the proteins that
determine virtually all of a person's
characteristics.
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DNA Structure...
• DNA molecule is an
antiparallel double helix
- DNA single strand consists of
alternating sugar residues and
phosphate groups
- 5 → 3 direction
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A=T
Watson & Crick in 1953 discovered DNA
double helix
G≡C
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Sense and antisense DNA strands with complementary sequences
5 3
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3 5
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Chemical properties of DNA:
Single stranded DNA
molecules that result from
denaturated can reassociate
into a double helix
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In Summary
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THANK YOU
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