【内容简介】《基础分子生物学(影印版)》的主要内容包括：The beginnings of molecular biology , The structure of DNA ,Genome organization: from nucleotides to chromatin, The versatility of RNA, From gene to protein, DNA replication and telomere maintenance, DNA repair and recombination, Recombinant DNA technology and molecular cloning……。

【目次】1 The beginnings of molecular biology
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Historical perspective
Insights into heredity from round and wrinkled peas: Mendelian genetics
Insights into the nature of hereditary materiaL: the transforming principle is DNA
Creativity in approach leads to the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis
The importance of technological advances: the Hershey-Chase experiment
A model for the structure of DNA: the DNA double helix
Chapter summary
Analytical questions
Suggestions for further reading
2 The structure of DNA
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Primary structure: the components of nucleic acids
Five-carbon sugars
Nitrogenous bases
The phosphate functional group
Nucleosides and nucteotides
2.3 Significance of 5' and 3'
.2.4 Nomenclature of nucleotides
2.5 The length of RNA and DNA
2.6 Secondary structure of DNA
Hydrogen bonds form between the bases
Base stacking provides chemical stability to the DNA double helix
Structure of the Watson-Crick DNA double helix
Distinguishing between features of......