Molecular genetics is the field of biology which studies the structure and function of genes at a molecular level. The field studies how the genes are transferred from generation to generation.
Molecular Genetics of Prokaryotes
The operon model was proposed by Jacob, Monod, and Wollman based on studies on lactose-requiring mutations of E. coli.
Primer on Molecular Genetics
from the U.S. Department of Energy
This primer was prepared by Denise Casey, Human Genome Management Information System, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for the 1991-92 DOE Human Genome Program Report.
Complexity In molecular genetics, used to describe a DNA molecule or a mixture of DNA molecules. It is the length of the sequence without including any sequence repetition.
Congenital Present at birth but not necessarily inherited.
Access Excellence (Genentech) A resource with graphics and other materials to augment molecular genetics.
Primer on Molecular Genetics (Department of Energy)
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Molecular genetics. The study of the flow and regulation of genetic information between DNA, RNA, and protein molecules.
Monoclonal antibodies. Immunoglobulin molecules of single- epitope specificity that are secreted by a clone of B cells.
Molecular genetics The study of macromolecules important in biological inheritance.
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A number of molecular genetics studies have focused on manipulating candidate aggression genes in mice and other animals to induce effects that can be possibly applied to humans.
molecular genetics The study of the biochemical structure and function of DNA.
molecular weight The sum of all the atomic weights of a molecule.
Insert
In molecular genetics refers to a DNA sequence of interest that has been inserted into a cloning vector such as a plasmid or bacteriophage.
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) ...
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Nicely explained in Falconer's polygenic threshold model for dichotomous nonmendelian characters in Human Molecular Genetics. See also a Lecture Note by Dr R Tissot. For an example see a paper by Wanstrat & Wakeland.
Subsequently, when molecular genetics really started going, other laboratories identified that molecular genetic nature of this gene-this antennapedia gene.
Reader in Molecular Genetics at North East Surrey College of Technology (Nescot) teaching molecular genetics and biotechnology.
Coli was used in most of the very first molecular genetics experiments. When the first genes were sequenced from it, it was found that all the information for the protein lay in one continuous stretch (an open reading frame (ORF)).
coli , and which is often used in molecular genetics experiments as a vector, or cloning vehicle. Recombinant phages can be made in which certain non-essential l DNA is removed and replaced with the DNA of interest.
A focus on new model organisms such as viruses and bacteria, along with the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA in 1953, marked the transition to the era of molecular genetics.
Microarrays are a technology that basically miniaturize processes that have been used in molecular genetics laboratories for years.
Life is studied at the atomic and molecular scale in molecular biology, biochemistry, and to molecular genetics. At the level of the cell, it is studied in cell biology and at multicellular scales, it is examined in physiology, anatomy, and histology.
In molecular genetics a DNA molecule with strands of different origin. Cf. hybridisation.
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Heterozygosity
The presence of different alleles of a gene at one or more loci. Cf. heterozygote ...
phiX-174, another famous bacteriophage (infects E. coli) that helped usher in the modern era of molecular genetics. Its single strand of DNA has 5,386 nucleotides and encodes 10 genes.
Link to a diagram (100 K) showing its life cycle.
Publications
Chromosome Poster
Primer Molecular Genetics
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Molecular genetics (← links)
Human t-lymphotropic virus (← links)
Hybridization (← links)
In situ hybridization (← links)
In situ nucleic acid hybridization (← links)
Spumavirinae (← links)
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 See also: Genetics, DNA, Human, Sequence, Genome
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