7.016 Introductory Biology (Fall 2018, MIT OCW). Instructors: Prof. Barbara Imperiali and Prof. Adam Martin. This course provides an introduction to fundamental principles of biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics for understanding the functions of living systems. Taught for the first time in Fall 2013, this course covers examples of the use of chemical biology and twenty-first-century molecular genetics in understanding human health and therapeutic intervention.
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Lecture 06 - Nucleic Acids
Instructor: Prof. Barbara Imperiali. In this final lecture of the Biochemistry unit, Professor Imperiali covers nucleotides and nucleic acids, discussing their structures and their importance as fundamental units for information storage and information transfer.