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What Do Genes Do?

"This unit explores how information contained in DNA is used, explaining the flow of information from DNA to RNA to protein. Also introduced are the concepts of transcription (as occurs between DNA and RNA) and translation." Part online course and part online textbook, the site has a large number of illustrations as well as embedded videos....

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Science and Technology / Biology / Genetics

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Textbook
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 15, 2010
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 15, 2010
Author:: The Open University
Submitter:: Cathy Swift

Primary Audience:: College Lower Division
Technical Format:: Website
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
Cost Involved:: No
Source Code Available:: Unknown
Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States