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Kenneth G. Wilson

Professor of Botany

Cold and Palms

Code Cracking - How to convert linear to 3D information

One of the great questions was "How does the genetic information get converted into cellular action?" The solution was the coming together of genetics and biochemistry forming the new field of molecular biology. The Central Dogma that followed was information went from

DNA --> RNA -->PROTEIN

Statement of the problem or hypothesis formation
Cracking the code
Mutation as a tool
Transcription
Translation
Modification

This web site is provided for instruction in Botany and Zoology 342 or Genetics 342

Text: Genetics: A conceptural ApproachBenjamin A Pierce

This is our friend Oliver the parrotlet, a true parrot, the smallest in the world.

by Kenneth G. Wilson,
Professor of Botany
Miami University
wilsonkg@muohio.edu