COVER -- CONTENTS -- BUILDING BLOCKS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS -- NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE -- PROTEIN STRUCTURE -- CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE -- GENOME ORGANIZATION -- DNA REPLICATION -- PROKARYOTIC TRANSCRIPTION -- TRANSCRIPTION IN EUKARYOTES -- POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROCESSING OF RNA -- THE GENETIC CODE AND PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS -- RECODING -- MUTATIONS -- REPAIR OF DNA -- MOLECULAR RECOMBINATION -- MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS -- REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION IN PROKARYOTES -- REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION IN EUKARYOTES I : TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION -- REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION IN EUKARYOTES II : SELECTIVE REARRANGEMENT, AMPLIFICATION, AND LOSS OF GENES -- REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION IN EUKARYOTES III: POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL -- DNA TECHNOLOGY -- RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY -- CELL CYCLE, CANCER, AND APOPTOSIS -- WHEN THINGS GO WRONG.