Unit 1: Digging Deeper
At the Human Genome Project website of the National Institutes of Health, we find these overview comments (https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Epigenetics): “Epigenetics is an emerging field of science that studies heritable changes caused by the activation and deactivation […]
Unit 5: Digging Deeper
#1 Did you know… that like mRNA, tRNA is transcribed and processed in the nucleus and then exported to the cytoplasm to do its job? Transfer RNA’s structure is single stranded but develops a secondary and […]
Unit 4: Digging Deeper
1. Did you know… that at Quora.com/what-is-the-shortest-rna/ we read about three such short kinds of RNA? Here’s the overview: “RNA primers, microRNA, and small interfering RNA (or short interfering RNA) are some of the shortest RNA molecules. […]
Unit 2: Digging Deeper
Non-protein amino acids (also sometimes spelled without a space as “nonprotein”) are found both in living things and outside–in the realm of nature outside of biology. There are over 140 of the non-protein amino acids […]
UNIT 3: Digging Deeper
#1. Did you know… that Nucleic acids represent an important class of macromolecules that largely serve as the genetic material in living organisms and viruses? In fact, it is a bit shocking to learn that they are […]