Test Bank for Molecular Biology: Principles and Practice, 1st Edition: Michael M. Cox

I. Foundations 

1. Evolution, Science, and Molecular Biology 

2. DNA: The Repository of Biological Information 

3. Chemical Basis of Information Molecules 

4. Protein Structure 

5. Protein Function 

 

II. Nucleic Acid Structure and Methods 

6. DNA and RNA Structure 

7. Studying Genes 

8. Genomes, Transcriptomes, and Proteomes 

9. Topology: Functional Deformations of DNA 

10. Nucleosomes, Chromatin, and Chromosome Structure 

 

III. Information Transfer 

11. DNA Replication 

12. DNA Mutation and Repair 

13. Recombinational DNA Repair and Homologous Recombination 

14. Site-Specific Recombination and Transposition 

15. Transcription: DNA-Dependent Synthesis of RNA 

16. RNA Processing 

17. The Genetic Code 

18. Protein Synthesis 

 

IV. Regulation 

19. Regulating the Flow of Information 

20. The Regulation of Gene Expression in Bacteria 

21. The Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes 

22. The Posttranscriptional Regulation of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes 

 

Appendix: Model Organisms 

Glossary 

Solutions to Problems 

Index