Molecular Pre-requisites

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Megan Parilla, MD

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Course Description

This course was made to serve as refresher where some of the more elementary molecular and cell biology pieces are explored.

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Objectives

• Lesson 1: The Cell – Understand the basic structure and function of cells.

• Lesson 2: DNA – Understand the chemistry of DNA and the structure of chromatin.

• Lesson 3: The Human Genome – Understand the impact of variations in human DNA

  sequence, and how DNA differs from person to person.