Principles of Molecular Biology

Harvard FAS

Principles of Molecular Biology is a course organized around the Central Dogma of Biology with presentations covering fundamental aspects of DNA and RNA structure, their function, and their interactions with proteins. The course opens with a discussion of the physical and chemical properties that drive the interactions of proteins with nucleic acids. This is used as a basis for understanding the material presented in the subsequent six modules, which cover DNA replication, DNA repair,…