Central dogma

Central dogma

In biology, the proposition that the permanent repository of genetic information is DNA which can be replicated, and that the information is expressed unidirectionally by transcription into RNA and thence by translation into protein; later qualified in important ways, e.g. upon the discovery of reverse transcription.

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central dogma

Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

The basic concept that, in nature, genetic information generally can flow only from DNA to RNA to protein. It is now known, however, that information contained in RNA molecules of ...

central dogma

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central dogma

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