CHAPTER 1- BIOCHEMICAL BASES FOR HEREDITY
I-1. DNA: The support of genetic information
- The transformation experiment
- Another experiment on transformation: the experiment of Avery, MacLeod and McCarty
I-2. Composants et structure de l’ADN
- Nucleotide
- Nucleoside diphosphates and triphosphates
- Polynucleotides
I-3. The Structure of DNA holds the key to understanding its function
- Base-Composition Studies
- The Watson–Crick Model
I-4. DNA replication
- DNA is reproduced by semiconservative replication
- Origins and forks of replication
- DNA synthesis
- Unwinding the DNA Helix
- RNA primer: necessary for DNA synthesis initiation
- Anti-parallel strands: a reason for discontinuous synthesis of DNA
- Summary for DNA synthesis model
I-5. RNA components and structures
I-6. Gene expression
- The Genetic Code and Transcription
- Organization of a protein coding gene
- Transcription process
- Initiation
- Elongation
- Termination
- Transcription in Eukaryotes Differs from prokaryotic transcription in several ways
- The nuclear genetic code
- The genetic code
- Characteristics of the nuclear genetic code
- Translation and Proteins
- Translation process
- Initiation
- Elongation
- Termination
CHAPTER 2- MITOSIS AND MEIOSIS
2.1. Definition of the human Karyotype
2-2. Chromosome classification
- Centromeric index (Ic) = p/p+q
2-3. DNA organization in eukaryote chromosome
- Chromatin
2-4. Chromatin: Euchromatin-heterochromatin
- Euchromatin
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- Heterochromatin
Heterochromatin can be either constitutive or facultative
Constitutive heterochromatin
Facultative heterochromatin
The Barr body
2-5. Mitosis and Meiosis comparison
2-6. The Development of Gametes Varies in spermatogenesis compared to oogenesis
2-7. DNA content during the cell cycle
- Quantitative analysis of mitosis
- Quantitative analysis of meiosis
CHAPTER 3- GENIC AND CHROMOSOMIC MUTATIONS
3-1 Definition:
3-2 Spontaneous and Induced Mutations:
3-3 Somatic and germinal mutations:
3-4 Classification Based on Type of Molecular Change:
1. Gene mutations:
- Base substitution
. - Insertion or deletion
- Silent, missense, nonsense, and frameshift mutations
- Metabolic disease
- Molecular disease
2. Genomic mutations:
-The monoploidy
- The polyploidy
- Autosomal aneuploidy
- Sex chromosome aneuploidy
- Non- disjunction during meiosis I and II
- Dosage Compensation of X-linked genes in mammals or Barr body
3. Chromosome mutations: structural chromosome aberrations
A. Balanced structural chromosome abnormalities
- Inversions
- Translocations
- Reciprocal and non-reciprocal translocations
- Robertsonien translocation ( a case: Familial Down Syndrome)
B. Unbalanced structural chromosome abnormalities
- Deletions (Cri du Chat Syndrome)
- Duplications
- Ring chromosome
- Translocation
C. Gamete formation in the case of structural chromosomal rearrangements
- Reciprocal translocations
- Robertsonian translocations
- Deletions
- Duplications
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