Required Background Information

Objective

The objectives of this lecture series are to familiarize high school students with the CoGe program and to teach them fundamental ideas about comparative genomics.

Basic genetic ideas required

DNA

• What is DNA and what does it do?
• How does DNA work?
  

Genes

• What are genes and what do they do?
• How do genes work?

RNA

• What is RNA?
• What are different kinds of RNA?
• What is the difference between mRNA, tRNA and rRNA?
• How does RNA related to genes?
• How does RNA relate to proteins?

Proteins

• What are proteins and what do they do?

Transcription and Translation

• What is transcription?
• What is translation?
• How are they similar and how are they different?

Central Dogma of Molecular Biology

• What is the central dogma of molecular biology? How does it related to DNA, RNA, and protein?

Mutations

• What are the different types of mutations?

Evolution

• What is evolution?

CoGe

Overview

• What can CoGe do and why do we need it?

Understanding CoGe's interface

See Also

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