{"id":82,"date":"2012-11-05T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/wolverton\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2016-12-01T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T13:50:41","slug":"biological-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/wolverton\/teaching\/cell-bio\/biological-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Biological Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"links\">Links<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/principles\/ebooks\/introduction-to-cell-biology-4570805\/4569725\">Principles Module 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2012\/08\/what-time-is-it-on-your-circadia.html\">What Time Is It on Your Circadian Clock?<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"objectives\">Objectives<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Discuss the kinds of molecules that carry biological information, and how information is encoded in them<\/li>\n<li>Describe the way information is stored and transmitted in biological systems<\/li>\n<li>Provide examples of cellular responses to environmental conditions<\/li>\n<li>Understand the premises and goals of systems biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"keypoints\">Key points<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>all organisms are constantly taking in cues from their environment and responding to it<\/li>\n<li>biological information is stored in nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) and is used to encode proteins<\/li>\n<li>the natural or cellular environment induces changes to gene expression via transcription and translation<\/li>\n<li>signal transduction chains link inputs to outputs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"in-classactivities\">In-class activities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the article linked aboved about circadian clocks and discuss 1) why it is an example of biological information flow and 2) how it represents a \u2018systems biology\u2019 approach to studying circadian rhythm. How could it be possible to take a single blood sample, as stated by Dr. Ueda, and determine a person\u2019s internal time?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links Principles Module 3 What Time Is It on Your Circadian Clock? Objectives Discuss the kinds of molecules that carry biological information, and how information is encoded in them Describe the way information is stored and transmitted in biological systems Provide examples of cellular responses to environmental conditions Understand the premises and goals of systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"parent":447,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/wolverton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/wolverton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/wolverton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/wolverton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/wolverton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/wolverton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/wolverton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions\/489"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/wolverton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/wolverton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}