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.
- Credits
- 0
- Level
- Level 100
Other courses on this programme
- BCHEM 153 — GENERAL BIOCHEMISTRY I
- BCHEM 154 — GENERAL BIOCHEMISTRY II
- BCHEM 161 — FOUNDATION BIOCHEMISTRY PRACTICALS I
- BCHEM 162 — FOUNDATION BIOCHEMISTRY PRACTICALS II
- BCHEM 171 — INORGANIC CHEMISTRY I
- BCHEM 172 — INORGANIC CHEMISTRY II
- BIOL 151 — CELL STRUCTURE
- BIOL 153 — INTRODUCTORY GENETICS
- CHEM 153 — Basic Organic Chemistry
- CHEM 154 — Functional Group Chemistry I
- CHEM 155 — Basic Physical Chemistry
- CHEM 156 — BASIC PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY II
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