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