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Chapter 1

• Mitosis cartoon
• Meiosis cartoon
• Human chromosomes
• Mitosis diagram
• Meiosis diagram
• Comparison of mitosis and meiosis
• Mendel experiment 1
• Dominant and recessive inheritance
• Sex-linked inheritance in Drosophila

Chapter 2

• 3-D animation of DNA and RNA structure
• 3-D animation of A,B, and Z forms of DNA
• DNA structure
• Nucleotide structure
• Hershey-Chase experiment

Chapter 3

• DNA replication
• Gene expression cartoon
• Central dogma

Chapter 4

• Gene Cloning Index with links
• Restriction enzyme database
• EcoRI action cartoon
• 3-D animation of HhaI methylase
• Forming recombinant DNA cartoon
• Cloning in a plasmid vector
• Cloning the insulin gene (cartoon)
• Cloning with a YAC vector (cartoon)
• PCR cartoon

Chapter 5

• Biotechnology cartoon
• Nucleic acid hybridization cartoon
• Transgenic mice cartoon
• FISH
• Protein separation

Chapter 6

• Structures of E. coli RNA polymerase core and holoenzyme

Chapter 7

• 3-D animation of CAP-DNA complex

Chapter 8

• Lambda replication cycles (cartoon)

Chapter 10

• 3-D structure of yeast RNA polymerase II

Chapter 11

• Class III general transcription factors

Chapter 13

• Nucleosome cartoon

Chapter 14

• Splicing cartoon
• 3-D animation of U1A snRNP with tutorial
• Nuclear intron splicing signals
• 3-D animation of group I intron structure
• 3-D animation of a hammerhead ribozyme with tutorial

Chapter 15

• Polyadenylation signals and mechanism

Chapter 16

• Map of Leishmania tarentolae maxicircle genes
• Comparative maps of maxicircle genes from several kinetoplastids
• Secondary and possible tertiary structure of a gRNA
• 3-D animation of RNase P RNA with tutorial

Chapter 17

• 3-D animation of amino acid structure
• 3-D animation of protein structure
• 3-D animation of a-helix, b-sheet, and protein domains

Chapter 18

• Genetic code cartoon
• 3-D animation of EF-Tu-tRNA complex

Chapter 19

• 3-D animation of tRNA structure
• 3-D animation of tRNA with tutorial
• Yeast ribosome structure

Chapter 20

• 3 models of DNA replication
• Replicating DNA
• Proteins at replicating fork

Chapter 22

• Crossing over and recombination cartoon
• Retrovirus cartoon
• Retrovirus replication cartoon
• Retrovirus replication cartoon

Chapter 24

• Cloning with a YAC vector
• Microarray technology