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Bromham: Reading the Story in DNA
Chapter 2
The immortal germline
Or: how do I get DNA samples?
Heroes of the genetic revolution 2 - August Weismann
Facsimiles of Weismann’s Essays on Heredity and The Germ-Plasm are freely available at:
www.esp.org/books/chrono-lst.html
TechBox 2.1- Hershey-Chase blender experiment
The Race for DNA is an account of the discovery of the structure of DNA, told through contemporary documents and interviews.
http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/narrative/page1.html
TechBox 2.3- Genetic code
You can read the intricacies of the amino acid notation rules at:
www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/AminoAcid/A2021.html
A list of genetic codes can be found on the NCBI website:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Utils/wprintgc.cgi
TechBox 2.4- DNA extraction
A number of websites provide simple instructions for extracting DNA at home or in the laboratory: for example
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/activities/extraction/
Further information
There are a number of excellent online resources covering the development of molecular genetics. It is worth exploring the excellent DNA Interactive Timeline, an animated history of genetics which includes many of the less-well known players:
www.dnai.org/timeline/index.html
Animations of cellular processes such as DNA replication, transcription, and translation are available at:
www.johnkyrk.com