ZOO 352 -Principles of Genetics

- Introduction (Genetics, its main branches, reasons for studying it and the investigative methods used in Genetics)

- Chromosomes, cell cycle and Mitosis and meiosis

- The chromosome theory and the Central dogma of genetics

- Mendel's Laws

- Dominance, epistasis and multiple alleles

- Pleiotropy and lethal genes

- Penetrance, expressivity and maternal effect 

- Epigenetic inheritance

- Mutations and Sex determination and linkage in eukaryotes

 - Genetic engineering and its applications