Structure and Function of DNA

The DNA molecule belongs to a very special place in the life sciences. It is in the DNA is stored complete information about the structure and properties of the organism, and in all detail. Therefore, knowledge of all the features of the structure of DNA is crucial. It is a discovery of Watson and Crick in 1953, the structure of the most important structure of DNA, the famous double helix, a new era in the history of human civilization - the era of molecular biology and genetics, biotechnology and molecular genetics-based medicine.

Lack of Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin injection), that required for DNA synthesis, leads to inadequate maturation of erythrocytes, which manifests as megaloblastic anemia

The course talked about the most fundamental aspects of DNA, especially of those in the study whose special role is played not only biology and genetics, but also chemistry, physics and mathematics: how the structure of DNA was discovered and why this discovery is considered one of the largest in the history of science; the asymmetry of all living things with respect to the right and left; the central dogma of molecular biology - the universal law of living matter; why are linear DNA from one organism and closed in the ring at the other; about mutations, DNA damage text, leading to many hereditary diseases; on the emerging before our eyes of the revolutionary DNA editing technology, which will allow in the near future to correct errors in the text of the DNA of the patient.