本书是高等院校生命科学专业英语基础教材，是编者结合多年教学实践并参考大量国内外英文教科书与科技文献编写而成的。全书共分3部分，第1部分为分子生物学基本阅读；第2部分为扩展阅读；第3部分为科技英语写作范例与指导。本书可供农(林)学、医学、师范类高等院校及综合性大学生物类专业的学生、教师以及相关研究人员使用和参考。

本书分为3部分，第1部分为基础阅读，介绍分子生物学的基本概念与原理，主要内容有DNA、染色体、DNA复制、DNA修复、转录、基因表达的调控、操纵子、蛋白质的运输、细胞凋亡、信号转导肿瘤发生、免疫的多样性和核酸的杂交等；第2部分为阅读材料是基础阅读的扩展，内容涉及分子生物学领域的研究热点与前沿主要内容有RNA、蛋白质的合成、真核基因调控、细胞周期、PCR功能基因组学、蛋白质组学、生物钟、艾滋病、疯牛病、基因治疗和基因食品等；第3部分为分子生物学研究性论文写作指南。

Basic Reading for Molecular Biology

1.1 SMALL MOLECULES

1.2 GENES ARE DNA

1.3 CHROMOSOMES

1.4 CLUSTERS AND REPEATS

1.5 CENOMES EVOLVE BOTH BY ACQUIRING NEW SEQUENCES

 AND BY REARRANGING EXISTING SEQUENCES

1.6 REPLICATION OF DNA

1.7 DNA REPAIR

1.8 TRANSCRIPTION

1.9 REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION

1.10 THE OPERON

1.11 RIBOZYMES HAVE VARIOUS CATALYTIC ACTIVITIES

1.12 DETERMINATION OF PROTEIN SEQUENCES

1.13 PROTEIN SYNTHETIC APPARATUS

1.14 PROTEIN TRAFFICKING

1.15 CHAPERONES MAY BE REQUIRED FOR

  PROTEINFOLDING

1.16 CEIL CYCLE

1.17 APOPTOSIS

1.18 ONCOGENES CODE FOR COMPONENTS OF SIGNAL

  TRANSDUCTION CASCADES

1.19 THE LOGIC OF INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING:LESSONS

  FROM COMPUTER-BASED"NEURAL NETWORKS"

1.20 IMMUNE DIVERSITY

1.21 NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION

Reading Materials

2.1 THE RNA WORLD: A CRITIQUE

2.2 RNA AND DNA AS CATALYSTS

2.3 RNA INTERFERENCE AND GENE SILENCING:HISTORY AND

 OVERVIEW

2.4 PROTEINS SYNTHESIS

2.5 PHOSPHORLATION-DEPENDENT PROTEIN INTERACTIONS AT

  THE NUCLEAR ENVELOPE

2.6 GENE REGULATION IN EUKARYOTES

2.7 THE CELL CYCLE

2.8 THE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION

2.9 APPLICATIONS OF MICROARRAYS

2.10 MODEL ORGANISMS:GERMS, WORMS, WEEDS,

  BUGES & RODENTS

2.11 FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS

2.12 PROTEOMICS AND THE NEW BIOLOGY

2.13 MOLECULAR LINGUISTICS: EXTRACTING INFORMATION

FROM GENE AND PROTEIN SEQUENCES

2.14 BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS

2.15 AIDS AND HIV

2.16 GENE THERAPY

2.17 MAD COW DISEASE

2.18 CONCERN GROWS OVER GENETICALLY MODIFIED

Appendix I

Appendix 11 

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