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

Text iGenetics by Peter J. Russell

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

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