Biology 120: Genetics
Topical Outline
References to Hyde, Introduction to Genetic Principles
- A.
- Introduction (Chapter 1)
- B.
- Cells, Cell Division and Chromosomes (Chapters 3, plus Section 8.8)
- 1.
- Chromosomes and Mitosis
- 2.
- Ploidy and Meiosis
- 3.
- Chromosome Anomalies
- C.
- Basics of Mendelian Genetics (Chpater 2)
- 1.
- Mendel's New Approach
- 2.
- Mendel's Principles
- a.
- Particles in Pairs
- b.
- Dominance
- c.
- Segregation
- d.
- Independence
- 3.
- Monohybrid, Dihybrid, Trihybrid, Test and Back Crosses (words, words, words!)
- 4.
- Statistics and Genetics (Caution! Math Ahead!)
- a.
- Statistics as the tool for predicting and evaluating results
- b.
- Chi Square Analysis of significance of data
- 5.
- Pedigrees (brief)
- D.
- Beyond Mendel (Chapter 4, 5, scan chapter 19)
- 1.
- Incomplete and Co-dominance; Pseudodominance
- 2.
- Multiple Alleles, Polygenes and Pliotropy
- 3.
- Epistasis
- 4.
- Sex (Oh boy!)
- a.
- Gender and Chromosomes
- b.
- Sex Linkage
- c.
- Sex Influenced and Sex Limited Traits
- E.
- Linkage and Linkage Mapping
(Oh no! More math!) (Chapter 6)
- 1.
- Linkage and Crossing Over
- 2.
- Calculating Linkage Map Distances
- 3.
- Two-point Crosses
- 4.
- Three-point Crosses
- F.
- Molecular Genetics
- 1.
- DNA as the Hereditary Material
- 2.
- DNA and RNA Structure (Chapter 7)
- 3.
- DNA Replication (Chapter 9)
- 4.
- Protein Synthesis (Chpater 10, 11)
- 5.
- Control of Gene Activity (Chapter 16, 17; first scan Chapter 15)
- 3.
- Mutation (Chapter 20, parts of Chapter 8)
- G.
- Recombinant DNA and Contemporary Issues (Chpater 12, 13, scan Chapter 21, 22)
- 1.
- Locating and Isolating Genes
- 2.
- Restriction Endonucleases
- 3.
- Plasmids and Viral Vectors
- 4.
- Gene Surgery
- H.
- Population Genetics:
(Oh, no! Math again!) (Chapter 23, scan Chapter 25)
- 1.
- Allelic, Genotypic and Phenotypic Frequencies
- 2.
- Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium and H-W Populations
- 3.
- Non-random Mating
- a.
- Mate Selection
- b.
- Natural Selection
- c.
- Mutation
- d.
- Migration
- e.
- Genetic Drift
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