Manel

On 4/2/2020 at 9:50 AM, Dagl1 said:

I think we fundamentally disagree on this topic, at least in the sense of 'review molecular biology concepts overall'. If the OP's question was purely; 'I am working in field x, modelling y and want to find more detailed information on this' then of course a list/textbook wouldn't be complete. But he asked 'to review molecular biology concepts overall', and preferably in a concise manner (I don't find textbooks concise in any sense of the word, but that may also have to do with the type of education my university offered (barely any lectures, and mostly discussion groups with a staff member (specialised in that topic), whereby everyone had to look up everything beforehand, then discuss and fill in each other's gaps. This method basically forced us (at least me) to just search everything on the internet, which is why I feel you can basically learn most of biology (at the level the OP is asking) as long as you have a list of things to look into/explain). 

@Manel I would like to note that Charon has infinitely more experience in research (and I assume teaching for that matter), so definitely give more weight to his answer than to mine (although I do keep standing behind the answer I have given).

Thats the way I'd like to approach it: a general review rather than a detailed one. A short, concise summary.

23 minutes ago, Sensei said:

Once upon a time scientists made experiment. They took group of university students and measured their IQ. Split them to half. One group was sent to holidays with a lot of entertainment. The other group remained and learned like usual. After week or two, both groups rejoined and IQ tests was performed once again. Group that was on holidays had 15-20% or so worser results that group that remained. Couple weeks later, IQ tests were performed again. Group that was on holidays returned to their typical average results.

So, no, IQ is not static. It depends on many factors, starting from such obviousness as amount of sleep, healthy balanced diet, age and health of human organism.

Performing IQ test in the wrong moment of somebody life, might give incorrect deceitful result.

ps. There is needed healthy balance between intellectual activity, entertainment, balanced diet, balanced lifestyle. If somebody concentrate just of career, it can result in mental breakdown, or occupational burnout.

Do you have the reference to that experiment? I couldn't agree more on what you said. When feeling depressed or rusty, one KNOWS that their level of mental performance is substantially lower than when well put together.

In addition, I'd like you to check the point of view that the well-known clinical psycologist Jordan B Peterson has on staticity of IQ. Google it and you'll find it so quickly. Please tell me your opinion on it.

2 hours ago, Phi for All said:

In my experience, smart and stupid describe behavior, not individuals (of any species). I don't think you can say a person is smart about everything, or stupid about everything. I might think of myself as a generally smart person, but I know I have the capacity to do some very stupid things nonetheless.

Determining some working parameters for general smartness or stupidity seems pointless and subjective. It's much easier to judge behavior. "You're not a stupid person, but you do some stupid things." Now you have to determine what's stupid and what's smart, and you have to consider context. 

That's a really interesting point of view. It leads to an approach that is much less harsh than the one our society is inclined to adopt nowadays, not for sociological purposes, but for individual ones.

On the one hand, there's a tendency of classifying people as static, crystallized entities, taking their innate capacities in account. IQ is a perfect example. It's often thought as an immutable trait, which will determine the job that one will engage in. I've even found theories of pure correlation between IQ and quality of coding/programming. But that perspective, in my opinion, doesn't make one progress so much.

On the other hand, we can consider a frame of reference that accepts that, despite the importance of congenital aptitudes, hard-work and ambition highly increases performance, and to a higher degree than inherit aspects. Thus, the possibility of evolution exists, generating a more driven individual, rather than a pessimistic one that accepts and lays on it's limitations

I'm a Med Student who is learning coding Matlab for bioinformatics. I would need to refresh the molecular biology concepts to understand any problem or situation that I encounter with with regards to analyzing experimental biological data through bioinformatics.

Could anybody please recommend me a good, clear and concise source (pdf, webpage, etc) to review molecular biology concepts overall?

So thankful!!!!