Molecular biology

Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry. Molecular biology chiefly concerns itself with understanding the interactions between the various systems of a cell, including the interrelationship of DNA, RNA and protein synthesis and learning how these interactions are regulated.

Further reading

• Keith Roberts, Martin Raff, Bruce Alberts, Peter Walter, Julian Lewis and Alexander Johnson, Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th Edition, Routledge, March, 2002, hardcover, 1616 pages, 7.6 pounds, ISBN 0815332181

Notes

• {{fnb|1}}W.T. Astbury,

Related topics

• Cell biology (structures and components of the cell)
• DNA and chromosome structure
• Protein biosynthesis (transcription from DNA to RNA, translation from RNA into protein)
• Protein structure and diversity

Notable molecular biologists

• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
• Frederick Sanger
• Francis Crick
• Francois Jacob
• James D. Watson
• Max Perutz
• Rosalind Franklin
• Susumu Tonegawa

See also

• Genome
• Important publications in molecular biology
• List of molecular biology topics
• Proteome