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Molecular technologies have the potential to revolutionize plant breeding.
Especially this second area is in the focus of heated public debate. Students should receive a through knowledge on the basics of these new territories of plant breeding and be enabled to form a truly personal opinion on this sensitive issues. Structure and function of DNA, RNA, proteins, biosynthesis of proteins. Molecular structure and regulation of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes in comparison. The structure of plant genome.