BIOL 400B Genetics
400 GENETICS (CREDIT, 4 HOURS)(LECTURE, 3 HOURS; LAB., 3 HOURS PER WEEK). AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF INHERITANCE. TOPICS COVERED ARE: MONOHYBRID AND DIHYBRID INHERITANCE, THE CYTOLOGICAL BASIS OF INHERITANCE (MITOSIS AND MEIOSIS), PROBABILITY AND GOODNESS OF FIT (THE BINOMIAL, THE CHI SQUARE TEST), THE GENETICS OF THE ABC BLOOD TYPING SYSTEM, SEX DETERMINATION AND INHERITANCE
RELATED TO SEX, CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATIONS, POPULATION GENETICS, AND MOLECULAR GENETICS (THE CENTRAL DOGMA OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; STRUCTURE OF DNA AND RNA; DNA REPLICATION, SYNTHESIS, AND TRANSCRIPTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE ANDFUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; THE GENETIC CODE; REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION).
PREREQUISITES: CHEMISTRY 350, 310, 351, 311.