You can find here notes from Biology Crash Course held in RBP Bioinformatics lab. It is far from comprehensive explanation, but it might be a good starting point.

Topics

  • Translation

    Translation in another of processes of transferring genetic information in cell, following after transcription. During translation, a cell “reads” the information in a messenger RNA (mRNA) and uses it to build a protein.

    Apr 30, 2021

  • Transcription

    Process of transcription happens in every cell and every organism. Transcription in one of processes of transferring genetic information in cell described in central dogma of molecular biology. It is a process in which DNA is transcribed to RNA.

    Apr 10, 2021

  • Genes

    In biology, a gene is usually defined as basic unit of heredity and a sequence of nucleotides in DNA or RNA that encodes the synthesis of a gene product - either RNA or protein.

    Mar 29, 2021

  • Organisation of DNA

    If we would took out all DNA from one typical human cell and stretch it out, it would be about 2 meters long. All of this DNA needs to be packed into nucleus that is 10 micrometers ($10^{-6}$) in diameter. It means, that DNA needs to be packed really tightly but at the same time it also needs to keep important parts accessible in order to transcribe them.

    Mar 23, 2021

  • Cells

    Cells are the smallest unit of life and can be looked at as building blocks of living organisms. As life of Earth is diverse, so are cells creating it.

    Mar 16, 2021

  • What is life?

    We all have some basic understanding of what life is. Plant, insect or person are alive, but a rock is not. But what is the characteristic that separates living from not living? From practical point of view, if we would send probe into outer space, land on some planet and we could do any measurement, how could we say that this planet has life?

    Mar 5, 2021

  • Evolution

    Evolution is a central concept in biology. In a very basic level, it is long process of producing imperfect copies of genetic material and natural selection of the ones that were lucky enough to survive in bigger numbers in next generations.

    Mar 5, 2021

  • Regulation and development

    Genetic information (DNA) of the organisms stays more or slightly less the same during whole life or organism. But cell are behaving differently in different environment and in different stages of life. Multicellular organisms have the same DNA in each cell and we know that we can find many very different cells these organisms (as ourselves). There are multiple mechanisms in cell taking care of this behaviour.

    Mar 5, 2021

  • Central dogma of molecular biology

    Central dogma of molecular biology is telling about processes of transferring genetic information in cell.

    Mar 5, 2021