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The study of modern genetics is really a study of the language of the cell, a special language found in deoxyribonucleic acid—DNA. In this chapter we shall investigate the structure and function of this molecule and explore how it is copied, how its language is interpreted into useful cell products, how it is controlled, how it changes, how it is transferred from one cell to another, and its applications in microbial genetics.

The search for the structure of the genetic material is one of the most compelling stories in biology. See Historical Highlights 9.1 for a short history of this saga.










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