Molecular Biology

Welcome to the Exploring Molecular Biology learning project.

Diagram of a typical gene.

## Content summary

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Independent study with group collaboration projects for exploration of the molecular basis of life.

## Learning materials

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Learning materials and learning projects are located in the main Wikiversity namespace. Simply make a link to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages in the main namespace) and start writing!

* Primary Structure \- participants explore the relation between gene sequence and protein sequence.
* How to access the genome databases

### Lessons

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* Lesson 1:
* Chemical structure of DNA
* Phosphodiester bonds are formed 5' to 3'
* A pairs with T
* G pairs with C
* Chemical structure of RNA
* Understand the difference between DNA and RNA
* Uracil pairs with Adenine
* Hydroxy group on the 2' carbon

### Assignments

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#### Activities

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-Draw Ribose label the 5' (5 prime) carbon and 3' carbon and 2' carbon. -Draw Deoxyribose. label the 5' carbon and 3' carbon -Draw adenine and guanine -Draw cytosine and thymine -Draw Uracil -Draw adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP) -Draw

* etc.

#### Readings

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Each activity has a suggested associated background reading selection:

* Wikipedia: Molecular biology
* Wikipedia: DNA
* Wikipedia: Purine
* Wikipedia: Adenine
* Wikipedia: Guanine
* Wikipedia: Pyrimidine
* Wikipedia: Thymine
* Wikipedia: Cytosine
* Wikipedia: RNA
* Wikipedia: Uracil

## See also

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* Wikipedia: Nucleic acid structure

## External resources

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Please place links to external learning resources on this subpage.

* hawaii.edu/~dserghi/BIOL407 (Original link was dead, present link is to archive copy)
* molecular biology (Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica)

## References

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