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- Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry. Molecular biology chiefly concerns itself with understanding the interactions between the various systems of a cell, including the interactions between DNA, RNA and protein bio-synthesis as well as learning how these interactions are regulated. The Hoffan people had a basic understanding of Molecular biology. (SGA: "Poisoning the Well")
- Molecular biology was the study of biology at a molecular level. The field overlapped with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry. Lieutenant Jeffrey Fratis served in the molecular biology department aboard the USS Enterprise-D in 2369. (TNG: "Man of the People" ) Doctor Carol Marcus, the inventor of the Genesis Device, was a renowned molecular biologist. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
- Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry. Molecular biology chiefly concerns itself with understanding the interactions between the various systems of a cell, including the interrelationship of DNA, RNA and protein synthesis and learning how these interactions are regulated.
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- Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry. Molecular biology chiefly concerns itself with understanding the interactions between the various systems of a cell, including the interactions between DNA, RNA and protein bio-synthesis as well as learning how these interactions are regulated. The Hoffan people had a basic understanding of Molecular biology. (SGA: "Poisoning the Well")
- Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry. Molecular biology chiefly concerns itself with understanding the interactions between the various systems of a cell, including the interrelationship of DNA, RNA and protein synthesis and learning how these interactions are regulated. Researchers in molecular biology use specific techniques native to molecular biology, but increasingly combine these with techniques and ideas from genetics, biochemistry and biophysics. There is not a hard-line between these disciplines as there once was. The following figure is a schematic that depicts one possible view of the relationship between the fields:
* Biochemistry is the study of the chemical substances and vital processes occurring in living organisms.
* Genetics is the study of the effect of genetic differences on organisms. Often this can be inferred by the absence of a normal component (e.g. one gene). The study of "mutants" – organisms which lack one or more functional components with respect to the so-called "wild type" or normal phenotype. Genetic interactions such as epistasis can often confound simple interpretations of such "knock-out" studies.
* Molecular biology is the study of molecular underpinnings of the process of replication, transcription and translation of the genetic material. The central dogma of molecular biology where genetic material is transcribed into RNA and then translated into protein, despite being an oversimplified picture of molecular biology, still provides a good starting point for understanding the field. This picture, however, is undergoing revision in light of emerging novel roles for RNA, for example as shown in too many lethal mutations for natural selection to clean up. Much of the work in molecular biology is quantitative, and recently much work has been done at the interface of molecular biology and computer science in bioinformatics and computational biology. As of the early 2000s, the study of gene structure and function, molecular genetics, has been amongst the most prominent sub-field of molecular biology. Increasingly many other fields of biology focus on molecules, either directly studying their interactions in their own right such as in cell biology and developmental biology, or indirectly, where the techniques of molecular biology are used to infer historical attributes of populations or species, as in fields in evolutionary biology such as population genetics and phylogenetics. There is also a long tradition of studying biomolecules "from the ground up" in biophysics.
- Molecular biology was the study of biology at a molecular level. The field overlapped with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry. Lieutenant Jeffrey Fratis served in the molecular biology department aboard the USS Enterprise-D in 2369. (TNG: "Man of the People" ) Doctor Carol Marcus, the inventor of the Genesis Device, was a renowned molecular biologist. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) This article or section is incomplete This page is marked as lacking essential detail, and needs attention. Information regarding expansion requirements may be found on the article's talk page. Feel free to [ edit] this page to assist with this expansion.
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