Notes

Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Biochemical Perspective
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Brief historical review of Biochemistry
2.3. The structure and function of nucleic acids
2.3.1. Introduction
2.3.2. The structure and function of DNA
2.3.3. The structures and functions of RNA
2.4. On the central dogma of molecular biology
2.4.1. The central dogma of molecular biology
2.4.2. The genetic code
2.4.3. Replication
2.4.4. Transcription
2.4.5. Translation
2.4.6. Some differences between eukaryotes and prokaryotes
2.4.7. Another feature in the central dogma: RNA → DNA or the reverse transcription
2.5. The Golden Age
3. The Mathematical Perspective
3.1. Boolean Structures
3.1.1. Objectives
3.1.2. Introduction
3.1.2. Logic
3.1.4. Binary system
3.2. Graph Theory
3.2.1. Objective
3.2.2. Discrete mathematics and graph theory
3.2.3. Suggested lesson plans
3.3. Polynomial dynamical systems
3.3.1. Objectives
3.3.2. Boolean networks
3.3.3. Boolean networks to model gene regulatory networks
3.3.4. Polynomial dynamical systems
3.3.5. Discrete Visualizer of Dynamics (DVD) Software
4. The lac operon
References