Ribonucleic Acid World

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Emphasis on novel roles and mechanisms of newly discovered Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) species including non-coding RNA's; RNA silencing, circular RNA's, RNA guided epigenetic regulation, clustered regulary interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas immunity, genome editing, telomerase biogenesis, riboswitches, exosome, editosome and RNA remodeling. Prerequisites: GENE 301 , GENE 302 , or GENE 303 ; BICH 410 , BICH 440 , BIOL 351 , or BIOL 413 .