Part 1 Chemistry and Genetics 1. The Mendelian View of the World 2. Nucleic Acids Convey Genetic Information 3. The Importance of Weak Chemical Interactions 4. The Importance of High-Energy Bond 5. Weak and Strong Bonds Determine Macromolecular Structure Part 2 Maintenance of the Genome 6. The Strucres of DNA and RNA 7. Chromosomes Chromatin and the Nucleosome 8. The Replication of DNA 9. The Mutability and Repair of DNA 10. Homologous Recombination at the Molecular Level 11. Site-Specific Recombination and Transposition of DNA Part 3 Expression of Genome 12. Mechanisms of Transcription 13. RNA Splicing 14. Translation 15. The Genetic Code Part 4 Regulation 16. Gene Regulation in Prokaryotes 17. Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes 18. Gene Regulation during Development 19. Comparative Genomics and the Evolution of Diversity Part 5 Methods 20. Techniques of Molecular Biology 21. Model Organisms