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Learning Activity - DNA and RNA
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| Module | LIFE1029 - Genes, Molecules and Cells |
| Programme |  Select a new weight:
           https://curriculum.nottingham.ac.uk/2026/view/tree/91666/course_lookup/XXIDXX
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| Year | https://curriculum.nottingham.ac.uk/2026/view/tree/91666/year_lookup/XXIDXX
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https://curriculum.nottingham.ac.uk/2026/view/tree/91666/outcomes/XXIDXX
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Describe the experiment by Griffith which discovered the process of bacterial transformation and the transforming principle, the experiment by Avery, MacLeod and McCarty which identified DNA as the transforming principle and the Hershey-Chase experiment which showed that the genetic material of phage T2 is DNA |
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Draw the basic structure of a nucleotide |
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Know that DNA is a double helix with two anti-parallel strands held together by H bonds between complementary base pairs |
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Identify the purine and pyrimidine bases and the main differences between them and understand the key difference between ribose and deoxyribose sugars |
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Know that DNA molecules can adopt different forms and that B form DNA is a right handed helix |
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LIFE2099 - Macromolecules and Macromolecular Assemblies: Structure, Analysis and Advanced Microscopy
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