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| Chapter Overview |
Chapter 12: The Structure Of The Genome |
This chapter outlines the genetic view of life, which will be followed and further developed in the textbook. Key figures in the historical work on the genome are mentioned. For example, Erwin Schrodinger and Max Delbruck were instrumental in developing the concepts of the gene, alternative states of the gene, and mutations. The structure of DNA, and its relation to the structures and functions of the organism's structures, is another major topic in the chapter. In all, the chapter addresses four major topics in discussing the structure of the genome:
1. the Mendelian outlook,
2. the use of mutants to show the existence and functions of genes,
3. the use of viruses in genetics, to show that DNA is the hereditary material,
4. the structure of DNA, its replication, and the way it carries genetic information.
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