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Whilst molecular biology concentrates largely on the molecules of life largely the nucleic acids and proteins, cell biology concerns itself with how these molecules. This is not a comprehensive coverage of cell and molecular biology. Similarly, the information in the genes is read, perhaps millions of times in the life of an organism, but the dna itself is never used up. The development of molecular biology was not just the fruit of some sort of intrinsic necessity in the history of ideas, but was a characteristically historical phenomenon, with all of its unknowns, imponderables and contingencies. Pdf molecular biology techniques ebook download and read. Understanding how that digital code directs the creation of life is the goal of molecular biology. Basics of molecular biology tandy warnow december 29, 2016. And probably the most remarkable event was the launch of human genome project hgp in 1989. Basic techniques in biochemistry and molecular biologyr.
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