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Part 1. Genes and Chromosomes 1 Genes Are DNA and Encode RNAs and Polypeptides 2 Methods in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering 3 The Interrupted Gene 4 The Content of the Genome 5 Genome Sequences and Evolution 6 Clusters and Repeats 7 Chromosomes 8 Chromatin Part 2. DNA Replication and Recombination 9 Replication Is Connected to the Cell Cycle 10 The Replicon: Initiation of Replication 11 DNA Replication 12 Extrachromosomal Replicons 13 Homologous and Site-Specific Recombination 14 Repair Systems 15 Transposable Elements and Retroviruses 16 Somatic DNA Recombination and Hypermutation in the Immune System Part 3. Transcription and Posttranscriptional Mechanisms 17 Prokaryotic Transcription 18 Eukaryotic Transcription 19 RNA Splicing and Processing 20 mRNA Stability and Localization 21 Catalytic RNA 22 Translation 23 Using the Genetic Code Part 4. Gene Regulation 24 The Operon 25 Phage Strategies 26 Eukaryotic Transcription Regulation 27 Epigenetics I 28 Epigenetics II 29 Noncoding RNA 30 Regulatory RNA