Nucleic acid
Learning outcomes
1. Explain the significance of key historical milestones in discovery and characterisation of DNA.
2. Draw a labelled diagram of nucleic acid
3. Describe importance of bonding in the structure of DNA.
4. Describe the central dogma and gene function.
5. Explain DNA replication
6. List the main types of nucleotides.
The central dogma
Experiments
Chargaff’s rules
Adenine pairs with thymine
Cytosine pairs with guanine
Purines are A and G.
Pyrimidines are C and T.
Number of purines and pyrimidines are equal.
Rosalind franklin
Performed x-ray diffraction studies to identify structure of DNA.
Discovered DNA is helical
Learning outcomes
1. Explain the significance of key historical milestones in discovery and characterisation of DNA.
2. Draw a labelled diagram of nucleic acid
3. Describe importance of bonding in the structure of DNA.
4. Describe the central dogma and gene function.
5. Explain DNA replication
6. List the main types of nucleotides.
The central dogma
Experiments
Chargaff’s rules
Adenine pairs with thymine
Cytosine pairs with guanine
Purines are A and G.
Pyrimidines are C and T.
Number of purines and pyrimidines are equal.
Rosalind franklin
Performed x-ray diffraction studies to identify structure of DNA.
Discovered DNA is helical
