Learn from Webpages

The best thing to do is use Google judiciously to learn about:

• DNA/RNA/protein and how you go from one to the other
• Transcription, translation, mRNA processing
• Differences between Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes
• Phylogenetics and generating trees
• Sequence alignments, multiple sequence alignments
• How protein structure determines function
• Homologues, paralogues and orthologues in evolution

• Basic Introduction to DNA->RNA->Protein
• Bioinformatics Introduction
• Excellent alignment tutorial
• CBI has great open coursework. This is a good place to go once you've developed some significant background knowledge and gives you an introduction to programming, omics, statistics, searching etc.