Aims

Study of the genes and the genome as molecuar entities that we describe and try so hard to understand their replication, transcription, and translation.
CONCERNS: mandatory for BIOL21 (partim 30-0 in BIOL21b) students.

Main themes

1/ General problematics of molecular genetics
2/ Structure and organization of the genome
3/ Translation system
4/ Initiation of translation in procaryotes
5/ Initiation of translation in eucaryotes
6/ Genetic code
7/ Translation regulation
8/ Transcription system in procaryotes
9/ Initiation of transcription in procaryotes
10/ Regulation of transcription in procaryotes
11/ Transcription system in eucaryotes
12/ Initiation of transcription in eucaryotes
13/ Regultion of transcription in eucaryotes
14/ Post-transcriptionnal maturation
15/ Replication system
16/ Replication genetics in procaryotes
17/ Repairing DNA
18/ Recombination
19/ Transposition in procaryotes
20/ Transposition in eucaryotes

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