CHAPTER New life for Woolly Mammoth DNA-researchers can now re-create the genes of mammoth and study the proteins they encoded. . Gene as the functional unit of inheritance . In search of the genetic material .
DNA is the genetic material . Chemistry of nucleic acids . RNA world . Properties of genetic material .
Packaging of DNA helix . DNA Replication . Transcription . Genetic code .
tRNA – the adapter molecule . Translation . Regulation of Gene expression . Human Genome Project (HGP) .
DNA finger printing technique