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

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?

Proteins

• What are proteins and what do they do?

Mutations

• What are types of mutations?

Vocabulary

• Exon
• Intron
• RNA

Basic CoGe interface