Molecular Basis of Inheritance — NEET Biology Concepts
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- What is DNA? Molecular Basis of Inheritance Explained Simply
- Structure of a Polynucleotide Chain: Nucleoside vs Nucleotide
- Purines vs Pyrimidines: Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Uracil
- Phosphodiester Bond and the 5' to 3' Polarity of DNA
- Watson and Crick Double Helix Model of DNA
- Chargaff's Rule and Complementary Base Pairing (A=T, G=C)
- DNA Dimensions: 0.34 nm, 3.4 nm Pitch and 10 Base Pairs per Turn
- How to Calculate DNA Length and Number of Base Pairs
- Difference Between DNA and RNA
- Packaging of DNA: Histones, Nucleosome and Chromatin
- Euchromatin vs Heterochromatin: What is the Difference?
- The Search for Genetic Material: Timeline of Key Experiments
- Griffith's Experiment and the Transforming Principle
- Avery, MacLeod and McCarty: DNA is the Transforming Principle
- Hershey-Chase Experiment: DNA is the Genetic Material
- Properties a Genetic Material Must Have (DNA vs RNA)
- RNA World Hypothesis: Why RNA Came First
- DNA Replication: The Semiconservative Model
- Meselson and Stahl Experiment: Proof of Semiconservative DNA Replication
- Taylor's Experiment on Vicia faba: Chromosome Replication
- Machinery of Replication: DNA Polymerase, Helicase and Origin
- Leading Strand, Lagging Strand and Okazaki Fragments
- What is Transcription? Copying DNA into RNA
- Transcription Unit: Template Strand vs Coding Strand
- Promoter and Terminator: The Signals of a Transcription Unit
- Transcription Unit and the Gene: Exons, Introns and Split Genes
- Types of RNA: mRNA, tRNA and rRNA
- RNA Polymerase I, II and III in Eukaryotes
- Post-Transcriptional Modifications: Capping, Tailing and Splicing
- Genetic Code: Codons and Its Salient Features
- Start Codon (AUG) and Stop Codons Explained
- Mutations and the Genetic Code: Point and Frameshift Mutations
- Sickle-Cell Anaemia: A Point Mutation in the Genetic Code
- tRNA: The Adapter Molecule and the Anticodon
- Translation: How mRNA is Read to Make Protein
- Ribosome Structure: 70S vs 80S and Polysomes
- Regulation of Gene Expression: Levels of Control
- The Lac Operon: Structure, Genes and Regulation
- Lac Operon: Role of Inducer, Repressor and the i Gene
- Central Dogma of Molecular Biology (and Reverse Transcription)
- Human Genome Project: Goals and Methods
- Salient Features of the Human Genome
- Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) and Sequence Annotation
- DNA Fingerprinting: Steps and Applications
- DNA Polymorphism and VNTRs: The Basis of DNA Fingerprinting
- What is DNA? Nucleotide Structure (Base, Sugar, Phosphate)
- Purines vs Pyrimidines: Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Uracil
- Deoxyribose vs Ribose: DNA Sugar vs RNA Sugar