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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Basic Structure of Amino Acids
We’ve previously examined how the central dogma of molecular biology hinges on the precise translation of genetic information into proteins, utilizing a […]
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Epigenetics is a dynamic and rapidly expanding field within biology that is transforming our understanding of heredity, gene expression, and cellular function. […]
Where Does Life Come From? Early Ideas About Life’s Origins
Imagine cracking open a rotten log and seeing maggots wriggling inside, or noticing frogs suddenly appearing in a drying pond. For centuries, […]
More Than Food: How Farming and Animals First Revealed the Rules of Inheritance
As humans transitioned from nomadic wanderers to cultivating the land and tending herds, they engaged with unintentional experiments. You might envision fields […]
Biology 101: Our Earliest Steps in Understanding Life
Let’s think back for a minute. Way back. Not just to how people take things for granted nowadays, but to a time […]
