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to remember because they're going to be concepts
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that come up again and again throughout the course,
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and I want to make sure that we're on the same page.
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This diagram at the top
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here is a very familiar one to most of you,
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it's sometimes called the central dogma of molecular biology.
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It indicates how information flows in cells
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and indicates a lot about the work that a cell does
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in maintaining and recreating itself,
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and maintaining its environment.
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That is, that the information needed to operate a cell
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is stored in its DNA.