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基因与人类（从行为到生物技术）

马里兰大学帕克分校

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To acquire an understanding of the fundamental concepts of genomics and biotechnology, and their implications for human biology, evolution, medicine, social policy and individual life path choices in the 21st century.

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Biology, Human Genetics, Genetics, Evolution

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May 31, 2017

Really interesting material and well taught, even entertaining at times! :0) The quizzes were detailed but not excessively hard, and did a good job of assessing if you had learning the material.

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This course is great for someone who wants to learn the impact biotechnology has made in our lives and it's future prospects. The concepts covered in the course have been explained very well.

从本节课中

Introduction to Genetics

Module One provides a foundational overview of genetics tools and principles.

The Central Dogma6:55

Gene Expression7:04

Sexual Reproduction8:01

Neuotransmitters and Hormones7:20

Comparative and Developmental Genomics11:35

教学方

Raymond J. St. Leger
Professor
Tammatha O'Brien
Lecturer

脚本

[MUSIC]

Hello, and welcome back.

So now that we're familiar with essential dogma of biology, we

understand the signifigance and key regions of our DNA and RNA.

And we know the various ways of

controlling gene expression without altering the sequence

of DNA, now we're going to enter the exciting DNA altering world of Mutations.

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Mutations are defined simply as a change. For DNA that means a change

in the Nucleotide sequence.Recall the four letters of DNA, G, A, T or C, Nucleotides.

Simply changing or having mutation of one or more of

these DNA Nucleotides can lead to a change in the mRNA.

In ultimately a change in the protein that's made.Some possible outcomes from

a DNA mutations are non functional protein.

A protein that has partial function.

A protein with a completely new or novel function, no protein at all or

interesting enough no noticeable change in protein

function even though there was a DNA mutation.

Mutations in genre may also affect timing or level of gene expression.

One of the fundamental properties of mutations is

that mutations just occur randomly.

When and if mutations occur is completely

unrelated to any advantage that mutation may provide.

We don't want to rise because an organism needs

them, and conversely, they don't arise to harm an organism.

They're spontaneous.

Natural selection plays a role in these mutations whether they will exist

in a population are not cause they can be selected for or against.

Now I want you to think about DNA and

RNA as sentences that code for genes, all the genes in the

sentence are composed of three letter words that we going to call codons.

In the same way three letters can make

a unique word, three Nucleotides make up unique codons.

The Nucleotides for making up DNA codons again are A,G,C and T for DNA.For

RNA, RNA uses the Nucleotides U instead of T so the

four Nucleotides of RNA are A,G,C and U.

Three letter codon corresponds to specific amino acids, and those amino

acids, to refresh your memory, are the building blocks to proteins.

In this way, the three letter codons determine which Amino acids are

going to be arranged in the proper order to synthesize the proper protein.

So, we can think of codons that make up

a gene as a sentence comprised of three letter words.

One example of a sentence comprised of three

letter words is, the red hat was big.

You'll notice that this analogy corresponds to a gene in

that we have a sentence composed of three letter words.

Again. The red hat was big.

Two types of mutations we're going to talk

about are insertion and mutations and deletion mutation.

And you can probably hypothesize from their names what happens in each mutation.

For insertion mutation, one

or more Nucleotides will be inserted.

A deletion mutation will have a deletion of one or more Nucleotides.

These mutations, insertions and deletion mutations, are called INDELs.

And they can lead to something called friendship mutations.

Consider our sentence. The red hat was big.

In the case of an insertion mutation, imagine we

insert a letter, say A, into the word red.

So now when you try to read the three letter words, it reads, the rea,

well, you'll notice that's not a word

and everything else in the sentence is gibberish.

What effect do you think that would have if we changed the co,

codons used as the template to make a protein in the same manner.

Now imagine the other type of mutation, the deletion mutation.

You have the same sets. The red hat was big but in this case

the D is removed. It's deleted.

We have the

[INAUDIBLE],

Wait, that doesn't make sense. Those three letter words don't mean much.

So, we have a frame shift mutation occurring

again, since RNA is read in three letter frames.

Once the word is altered, one word is

altered, the rest of the sentence is also shifted.

Another type of mutation that we'll talk about are called substitution mutations.

These don't change the reading frame of the sentence, we have the same sentence.

The red hat was big but

for a substitution mutation, we'll substitute, in this

example, an e in red with an a.

So now, we get a different sentence with a different meaning.

Rad hat was big.

I actually introduced this type of mutation

earlier to discuss the sickle cell trait.

In that case, one single codon is

changed by substituting one Nucleotide with another Nucleotide.

And you can see the dramatic effect it had on the shape of hemoglobin.

It altered not only the shape, but remember, form dictates function.

A change in the shape of hemoglobin changed how it functioned.

If we want to look at gene mutations, this is difficult to study in humans,

but because we never have control of a

human of a human's environment or life style.

And when we try to study DNA mutations in humans,

we also run across that pesky little issue of, ethics.

So fortunately, we have model

organisms that we can use to study mutations.

We'll see that nature's thrifty in that a lot of genes

do the same thing in flies, mice and even tiny bacteria.

One example of this similarity in different organisms can be

seen in people with the mutation called the tin man gene.

It's named after the tin man in The Wizard of

Oz, and people with this mutation often have congenital heart defects.

But this mutation was first observed in fruit flies

born without a functional heart, hence the name, tin man gene.

Based on the similarities in gene function and expression in flies and humans

you can see why some geneticists refer to flies as little humans with wings.

Flies drink alcohol when they're sexually rejected, they can become aggressive

so we can use them to study behavior, they're great models.

Because they have sleepless nights and they can be used to study insomnia.

They're a wonderful model

organism because we can study these traits much much more.

I want to drive home the connection between form and function.

So that you truly understand significantly how a little change

in our proteins can ultimately affect our overall bodies function.

So we talked about form and function.

Well let me give you a practical example of form and function.

Take this chair for example.

Very specific form of shape that relates to

its very specific function.

What if I change the shape of form ever so slightly?

So, just change where the seat is.

Has it affected the function? Well' let's see.

I can sit on it, it's asking for a mishap.

But I can still sit on it,

so a slightly different shape, slightly different function.

It's not going to work in the same way.

But let's look at it more dramatically.

What if there were a dramatic change in the shape of this chair?

So now I change

the shape.

All the elements are still here but is the function the same?

No, the function is not the same.

So what we're going to see with when we talk about proteins and mutations

is that different changes and shape can have different effects on the functions.

Some can be small or non consequential and other ones can be pretty extreme.

Now, imagine if I were to start this with a hammer, it's going

much more extreme effect on the shape and a much more extreme effect on it's form.

Although mutations are often thought of as harmful, they provide

a rich source of genetic diversity in the world around us.

Mutations can play a key role in why you don't look

exactly like your mother, or your father, sister or your brother.

Well, why you're uniquely you.

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