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The Synthesis of the Nucleic Acids
and
The Directions of Transcription and Translation

1. Nucleic Acid Biosynthesis

   

   1. Generalized
      1. RNA

      2. DNA
         

      

   2. Model Systems
      1. RNA

      2. DNA
         (see Nobels Meselson & Stahl
         Cold Spring Harbor
         Symposium on Quantitative Biology
         1958)

2. Directional Synthesis
   1. DNA

   2. RNA

   3. Which way is the parent DNA read during replication?

   4. Which was is the DNA read during transcription?

   5. Which way is m-RNA translated?

   6. Which way is the protein constructed?