Brief Overview of Macromolecules DNA, RNA, and Proteins.

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Brief Overview of Macromolecules DNA, RNA, and Proteins

Transcript of Brief Overview of Macromolecules DNA, RNA, and Proteins.

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Brief Overview of Macromolecules

DNA, RNA, and Proteins

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What is “genomics”?

--The systematic study of the genome using large-scale DNA sequencing, gene-expression analysis, or computational methods.

Genome: the total complement of genes contained in a cell or virus, commonly used to refer to all genes present in one complete haploid set of chromosomes in eukaryotes.

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Genome Sizes

•Saccharomyces cerevisiae 13 Mb

•Drosophila melanogaster 120 Mb

•Homo sapiens 3,200 Mb

•Fern 160,000 Mb

•Amoeba dubia 670,000 Mb

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DNA Structure

Base / nucleotide pair: a pair of nitrogenous bases, most commonly one purine and one pyrimidine, held together by hydrogen bonds in a double stranded region of a nucleic acid molecule.

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Purines vs. Pyrimidines

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Nucleosides and Nucleotides

DNA = deoxyribonucleic acid

adenosineATP

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Polynucleotide Chain

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The Double Helix

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RNA vs. DNA

                                                

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RNA Structure

Single stranded

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Summary of DNA vs. RNA

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Protein Structure

Made up of amino acid chain.

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Peptides