course
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