Applied molecular biology Book: Glick, Pasternak, Molecular Biotechnology, Principles and application of recombinant DNA Biotechnology Molecular genetics
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- 2. What Is Biotechnology? Using scientific methods with organisms to produce new products or new forms of
- 3. Beer is an ancient foodstuff Ancient beer was not just drink, but food Thick drink with
- 4. Yeast cells Both beer and bread were developed around the same time in the middle east
- 5. Cheese & yogurt also came about due to microbial contamination
- 6. Classical Biotechnology Refinement of fermentation techniques during 18th and 19th C. During 20th C. fermentation expanded
- 7. Herbal plants have been used since ancient times Even today, 25% of our common medicines contain
- 8. Alkaloids: Over 5,000 alkaloids have been identified in numerous plant families, most in the angiosperms Contain
- 9. Common Medicinal Alkaloids & their Sources: Morphine Poppies Caffeine Coffee/Tea Nicotine Tabacco Emetine Ipecac Atropine Belladonna
- 10. During 19th C. quinine was critical to British colonial expansion Extracted from the bark of the
- 11. Bayer discovered way to synthesize acetylsalicylic acid Known under its trade name, Aspirin
- 12. Penicillin
- 13. Penicillium mold In 1928 Alexander Fleming noticed something odd about a petri dish contaminated with mold
- 14. In 1940 Norman Heatley finally showed that penicillin could stop infection Mice were infected with streptococcus
- 15. 1st human patient was a policeman with staphylococcal & streptococcal infections which had already taken part
- 16. By D-Day the U.S. was making millions of doses. Unfortunately, neither Heatley nor his boss patented
- 18. Genetics - historical perspective Practical genetics 7,000 yeas ago corn breeding - Central America rice breeding
- 19. A domesticated animal is one which has been bred in captivity Thru artifical selection they are
- 20. Wolf/Dog domestication lead to: Alteration in body size Reduction in skull & tooth size Shortening of
- 21. http://nemp.otago.ac.nz/read_speak/2004/read_comprehension/shrek.htm Modern sheep have been bred not to lose their wool
- 22. Most domesticated species arose in SW Asia or China Of the ~150 species of terrestrial non-carnivores
- 23. Desirable Characteristics for Domestication of an Animal Species Value to humans as food, draft, fiber, or
- 24. The switch from hunter-gatherer to farmer took place between 10 000 & 5 000 years ago
- 25. Example Wheat is a grass spread seeds called grains Mutants developed that did not lose seed
- 26. Hybridization played a role in the evolution of modern grains
- 27. Changes in corn size from 5000 BCE to 1500CE The evolution of modern corn took several
- 28. Mutation responsible for this change has been identified It is not a change in a gene
- 43. Later Concepts 1900 - Not until 34 years after its publication did Mendel’s work receive additional
- 44. First Structure By 1910 actual components known (nucleotides) Phoebus Levene proposed a tetranucleotide structure for DNA
- 45. So… If DNA was a single covalently bonded tetranucleotide structure then it couldn’t easily encode information
- 46. T. H. Morgan’s Fruit Flies 1907-1930s
- 48. Frederick Griffith, 1928 Transformation of Bacteria Transforming factor ?
- 49. Avery, McCarty and MacLeod After 10 yrs of effort published work using Griffith’s approach to assay
- 50. Erwin Chargaff 1949-1953 Digested many DNAs and subjected products to chromatographic separation Results A = T,
- 52. X-ray Crystallography of DNA Franklin and Wilkins
- 53. Watson and Crick 1953 propose double helix model Right-handed double helix Collaborated at Cambridge, England.
- 54. Impact Article in Nature “It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have
- 55. DNA Replication
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