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BIOL 164 — MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

BSc BSc Biochemistry · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

An introduction to genetic notations, conventions and terminology. Prokaryotic chromosomal DNA: structure and function, Plasmid DNA structure, infection, replication and function. Classes of RNA: synthesis, structure, function, phylogenetic significance, mutagenesis, mutations and mutant types, notations, biochemical basis of mutants; Mutagens: spontaneous base analogue, chemical mutagen, intercalating agents, mutator genes, spontaneous types of mutations; inversion, translocation, nonsense, frame shift, deletions, insertion etc. Reversion and revertants; Transgenics: conjugation, transformation, and transduction.

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