Lewin's Essential Genes

About the book: lewin's essential genes: 3rd edition lewin's essential genes, third edition, provides studentswithacomprehensive overview of molecular biology andmoleculargenetics.chapter material has been updated throughout,includingacompletely revised chapter on regulatory rna, to keeppacewiththis advancing field. Contents part i: genes and chromosomes genes are dna genes code for proteins methods in molecular biology and genetic engineering the interrupted gene the content of the genome genome sequences and gene number clusters and repeats genome evolution chromosomes chromatin part ii: dna replication and recombination replication is connected to the cell cycle the replicon: initiation of replication dna replication extrachromosomal replication homologous and site-specifi c recombination repair systems transposons, retroviruses and retrotransposons immune diversity part iii: gene expression prokaryotic transcription eukaryotic transcription rna splicing and processing mrna stability and localization catalytic rna translation using the genetic code part iv: gene regulation the operon phage strategies eukaryotic transcription regulation epigenetic eff ects are inherited regulatory rna index