Molecular Biology
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Welcome to the Exploring Molecular Biology learning project.

Content summary
Independent study with group collaboration projects for exploration of the molecular basis of life.
Learning materials
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
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Texts
Lessons
- 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
Activities
-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
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
References
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Active participants
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External resources
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- hawaii.edu/~dserghi/BIOL407 (Original link was dead, present link is to archive copy)
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- Organic Chemistry
- Biology of the Cell
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