How to use this book Introduction: Cells as macromolecular assemblies 1. Proteins 2. Compartments Part 1: DNA as ifnromation 3. Genes are mutable units 4. DNA is the genetic material 5. Nucleic acid structure 6. Isolating the gene Part 2: From gene to protein 7. Messenger RNA 8.

Protein synthesis 9. Interpreting the genetic code 10. Protein localization Part 3: Prokaryotic gene expression 11. Transciption 12. The operon 13. Phage strategies Part 4: Perpetuation of DNA 14. The replicon 15. DNA replication 16.

Restriciton and repair 17. Recombination 18. Transposons 19. Retroviruses and restroposons Part 5: The eukaryotic genome 20. DNA biotechnology 21. Genomes 22. Exons and introns 23. Gene numbers 24.

Organelle genomes 25. Siple sequence DNA 26. Chromosomes gene expression 27. Nucleosomes Part 6: Eukaryotic gene expression 28. Initiation of transcription 29. Regulation of transcription 30. Nuclear splicing 31. Catalytic RNA 32.

Rearrangement of DNA 33. Immune diversity Part 7: Cell growth, cancer, and development 34. Protein trafficking 35. Signal transduction 36. Cell cycle and growth regulation 37. Oncogenes and cancer 38. Gradients and cascades Answers.