Molecular Biology

Welcome to the Exploring Molecular Biology learning project.

Diagram of a typical gene.

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

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

See also

• Wikipedia: Nucleic acid structure

External resources

Please place links to external learning resources on this subpage.

• hawaii.edu/~dserghi/BIOL407 (Original link was dead, present link is to archive copy)
• molecular biology (Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica)