Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Michigan/Chem455 505 Special Topics in Biochemistry: Nucleic Acids Biochemistry (Fall 2014)/Course description

We now realize that the human genome contains at least 80,000 non-redundant non-coding RNA genes, outnumbering protein-coding genes by at least 4-fold, a revolutionary insight that has led some researchers to dub the eukaryotic cell an “RNA machine”. How exactly these ncRNAs guide every cellular function – from the maintenance and processing to the regulated expression of all genetic information – lies at the leading edge of the modern biosciences, from stem cell to cancer research. This course will provide both a broad and deep overview of the structure, function and biology of both DNA and RNA. We will explore important examples from the current literature and the course content will evolve accordingly*. The class will be taught from a chemical/molecular perspective and will bring modern interdisciplinary concepts from biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology to the fore.

The Wikipedia project for this course requires you to identify an important topic related to nucleic acid biochemistry and either create or substantially improve a Wikipedia site on that topic. This project is worth a total of 25 points, where 5 points are given for a peer review and 20 points for the quality of the final Wikipedia entry as detailed below.

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