What do genes do?
Offered By: The Open University via OpenLearn
Course Description
Overview
This free course, What do genes do?, explores how information contained in DNA is used, explaining the flow of information from DNA to RNA to protein. Also introduced are the concepts of transcription (as occurs between DNA and RNA) and translation.
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Using information stored in DNA
- 1 Using information stored in DNA
- 2 One gene–one protein
- 2 One gene–one protein
- 3 The flow of information from DNA to RNA to protein
- 3 The flow of information from DNA to RNA to protein
- 4 From DNA to RNA: transcription
- 4 From DNA to RNA: transcription
- 5 Where does transcription occur in the cell?
- 5 Where does transcription occur in the cell?
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
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