Hank introduces us to that wondrous molecule deoxyribonucleic acid - also known as DNA - and explains how it replicates itself in our cells.

References:
http://www.nature.com/nature/dna50/watsoncrick.pdf
http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/thenewgenetics/chapter1.html
http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect20/A12.html
http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-of-dna-structure-and-function-watson-397
http://www.uic.edu/classes/phys/phys461/phys450/ANJUM04/
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/dna-replication-steps.html
http://www.dnareplication.info/stepsofdnareplication.php
http://salamandercandy.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/how-much-dna/
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/franklin.html
http://www.fmi.ch/members/marilyn.vaccaro/ewww/dna.pioneer.excerpt.htm
http://www.strangescience.net/rfranklin.htm

1:41 link to Biological Molecules http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8WJ2KENlK0

Table of Contents:
1) Nucleic Acids 1:30
2) DNA
-A) Polymers 1:53
-B) Three Ingredients 2:12
-C) Base Pairs 3:45
-D) Base Sequences 4:13
3) Pop Quiz 5:07
4) RNA 5:36
-A) Three Differences from DNA 5:43
5) Biolography 6:16
6) Replication 8:49
-A) Helicase and Unzipping 9:22
-B) Leading Strand 9:38
-C) DNA Polymerase 10:08
-D) RNA Primase 10:24
-E) Lagging Strand 10:46
-F) Okazaki Fragments 11:07
-F) DNA Ligase 11:47

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