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Parent topics
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Chromosome [r]: A compact body of DNA wrapped around proteins that is the unit of genetic material, visible only during cell division. [e]
- Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. [e]
- Genome [r]: The set of all genes of an organism. [e]
- Nucleic acid [r]: A class of macromolecules important in conveying genetic information. [e]
- Polymer [r]: A compound of high molecular weight derived either by the addition of many smaller, similar molecules (monomers), or by the condensation of many smaller, similar molecules eliminating water, alcohol, etc. [e]
Subtopics
- Nucleotides [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Deoxyribose [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bases [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gene [r]: The functional unit of heredity. [e]
- Allele [r]: A specific sequence of a gene, and one of a pair in a diploid cell (one per chromosome). [e]
- Codon [r]: Add brief definition or description
Related topics
- Amino acid [r]: Biochemical with an amino group, a carboxyl group, a hydrogen atom, and a side chain bonded to a central carbon. [e]
- Capsid [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cell [r]: The basic unit of life, consisting of biochemical networks enclosed by a membrane. [e]
- Cell nucleus [r]: Membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells, containing most of the cell's genetic material, organized as multiple long linear DNA molecules in complex with a large variety of proteins, such as histones, to form chromosomes. [e]
- Chloroplast [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Epigenetics [r]: Modifications in a gene's activity, expression, and/or regulation that do not involve changes to the DNA sequence. It is possible for such differences to be inherited from one generation to the next. [e]
- Eukaryote [r]: An organism that is composed of one or more cells containing cell nuclei. [e]
- Genomic imprinting [r]: A genetic phenomenon by which certain genes are expressed in a parent-of-origin-specific manner. [e]
- Hydrogen bond [r]: A non-covalent and non-ionic chemical bond involving a hydrogen atom and either Fluorine, Nitrogen, or Oxygen. [e]
- Mitochondrion [r]: Structure, function, life cycle and evolutionary theories involving the origins and role of the mitochondrion. [e]
- Nucleoid [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phenotype [r]: Observable characteristic or trait of an organism, such as its morphology, development, biochemical or physiological properties, or behaviour. [e]
- Plasmid [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Protein [r]: A polymer of amino acids; basic building block of living systems. [e]
- Ribosome [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RNA [r]: A polymer, made using the nucleotides of adenosine, guanosine, uridine and cytidine, that is used for a variety of biological functions in living systems. [e]
- Translation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vector [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Virus [r]: A microscopic particle that can infect the cells of a biological organism and cannot reproduce without the assistance of the cells it infects. [e]
Biographies relevant to DNA
- Alec Jeffreys
- Alfred Hershey
- Alfred Sturtevant
- Allan Maxam
- Annie Chang
- Arthur Kornberg
- Barbara McClintock
- Colin MacLeod
- Craig Venter
- David Botstein
- Ed Southern
- Edward Tatum
- Erich von Tschermak
- Erwin Chargaff
- Francis Crick
- Franklin Stahl
- Frederick Griffith
- Frederick Sanger
- Friedrich Miescher
- George Beadle
- Gregor Mendel
- Hamilton Smith
- Har Gobind Khorana
- Harriet Creighton
- Herbert Boyer
- Hermann J. Muller
- Howard Temin
- Hugo de Vries
- James D. Watson
- James Gusella
- Joseph Sambrook
- Karl Correns
- Kary Mullis
- Kent Wilcox
- Leroy Hood
- Lloyd Smith
- Maclyn McCarty
- Mark Skolnick
- Marshall Warren Nirenberg
- Martha Chase
- Matthew Meselson
- Maurice Wilkins
- Oswald Theodore Avery
- Patrick Brown
- Paul Berg
- Phoebus Levene
- Ray White
- Raymond Gosling
- Robert W. Holley
- Ronald Davis
- Rosalind Franklin
- Stanley Cohen
- Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Walter Gilbert
- William Astbury
