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Video Lectures - Lecture 6/nTopics covered: /nGenetics 1/nInstructor: /nProf. Eric Lander/nTranscript - Lecture 6/nI am the other half of the teaching team for 7.01. You've already gotten to meet my good colleague Bob Weinberg. My name is Eric Lander. And Bob and I are both faculty here in the Biology Department. In fact, we're both members over at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research...
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Introduction: Transcript Studying the human genome - the complete set of human genes - is a way of studying fundamental details about ourselves. The three billion letters of the human genome are written using the four-letter alphabet of DNA. The DNA is divided among 23 pairs of chromosomes that are found in each of the trillions of cells in our bodies. In 2003, The Human Genome Project produced a...
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Video Lectures - Lecture 8/nTopics covered: /nGenetics 3/nInstructor: /nProf. Eric Lander/nTranscript - Lecture 8/nLet's dive in today and look at how geneticists use genetics. I've told you up until now about some of the history of genetics and how it gave rise to our understandings about genetic transmission in traits, about genetic mapping, linkage analysis, how all this helped confirm the Ch...
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Genetics (from Ancient Greek γενετικός genetikos, “genitive” and that from γένεσις genesis, “origin”[1][2][3]), a discipline of biology, is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms.[4][5] The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding. However,...
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Mapping: Transcript To begin the project, researchers built maps of the human genome. They identified thousands of DNA sequence landmarks that helped them navigate across the chromosomes. Developing genome maps was necessary preparation for DNA sequencing. These same maps also served to orient geneticists who were hunting for disease genes. With enough landmarks in place, project scientists...
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Biology > Introductory Biology/n * Email this page/nVideo Lectures - Lecture 11/nTopics covered: /nMolecular Biology III/nInstructor: /nProf. Graham Walker/nTranscript - Lecture 11/nSo just trying to remind you that the replication fork looks something like this where 5 prime to 3 prime and 5 prime to 3 prime. This is what's known as the leading strand because DNA, the synthesis of the new st...
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Video Lectures - Lecture 12/nTopics covered: /nMolecular Biology 3/nInstructor: /nProf. Eric Lander/nTranscript - Lecture 12/nGood morning. Good morning./nSo, I'd like to pick up where we left off last time and just finish off translation and then step back and look at how this central dogma of DNA is replicated into DNA, is read into RNA, and is translated into protein./nOr, actually, as Franci...
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Nobel Prize Winner, Sydney Brenner, one of the leading pioneers in genetics and molecular biology, shares his ideas on the possible ways of ... all » sequencing the human genome. Peoples Archive is dedicated to collecting for posterity the life stories of the great thinkers, creators and achievers of our time. The people whose stories we present are leaders of their field, whose work has in...
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The Human Genome Project also produced other advances, not expected to be accomplished until much later. These included an advanced draft of the mouse genome and an initial draft of the rat genome. Medical researchers did not wait to use data from the Human Genome Project. When the project began in 1990, fewer than 100 human disease genes had been identified. At the project's conclusion in 200...
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www.bimatics.blogspot.com The public Human Genome Project started by identifying unique marker sequences distributed throughout the genome. Then, many copies of a small section of DNA were randomly cleaved into smaller fragments, and each small fragment was sequenced. Because there were originally many copies of the DNA in question, many fragments represented the same part of the genome. These wer...
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Video Lectures - Lecture 13/nTopics covered: /nGene Regulation/nInstructor: /nProf. Eric Lander/nTranscript - Lecture 13/nGood morning. Good morning./nSo, what I would like to do today is pick up on our basic theme of molecular biology. We've talked about DNA replication. The transcription of DNA into RNA, and the translation of RNA into protein. We discussed last time some of the variations bet...
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Home > Courses > Biology > Introduction to Biology/n * Email this page/nVideo Lectures - Lecture 11/nTopics covered: /nMolecular Biology 2/nInstructor: /nProf. Eric Lander/nTranscript - Lecture 11/nOK, so what I'd like to do today is pick up where we left off last time,/nwith respect to how this genetic material actually functions./nWe discussed last time the experiments that identified DNA a...
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A computer program integrates the data from individual sequencing reactions. It can spot where DNA fragments overlap and order them as they originally were on the chromosome. Many overlapping sequences reads are needed to generate the uninterrupted sequence of the original stretch of DNA. During the Human Genome Project, every base pair of DNA was sequenced an average of nine times. Some stretc...
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Whenever a stretch of DNA that spanned 2,000 or more bases was assembled, it was placed into public databases within 24 hours. Anyone with access to the Internet could see and analyze the sequence data. After sequencing the 3 billion letters in the human genome an average of nine times, the Human Genome Project had released DNA sequence for 99 percent of the genome. This finished sequence was 9...
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