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BIOL 205

Mendelian and Molecular Genetics

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Mendelian and molecular genetics
  • single-gene inheritance
  • independent assortment
  • chromosome mapping
  • genetic interactions
  • gene structure and function
  • medical and biotechnology applications.

Readings

  • Recommended, explicitly NOT mandatory: Introduction to Genetic Analysis, 12th edition, W. H. Freeman/Macmillan Learning. Other editions and second-hand copies accepted. No other required or supplemental materials listed.
Fall 2024

Topics

  • The Genetics Revolution
  • The birth of genetics, 2. after cracking
  • the code, and 3. genetics today
  • genetics of bacteria and viruses lead to
  • technologies like DNA cloning and Gene
  • DNA: Structure and Replication
  • RNA: Transcription, Processing and Decay
  • RNA synthesis, processing, and decay as
  • well as how RNA and protein factors
  • information transfer: translation (the
  • Regulation of Gene Expression in Bacteria and
  • to detect and quantify RNAs, proteins
  • and specific regions of DNA as well as
  • Genomes and Genomics
  • Know the molecular tools that molecular geneticists use such as DNA cloning, Sequencing and
  • Molecular genetics
  • Learning
  • Meiosis

Readings

  • Recommended: Course Textbooks Edition(s) Publisher
Fall 2023

Topics

  • The Genetics Revolution
  • The birth of genetics, 2. after cracking
  • the code, and 3. genetics today
  • genetics of bacteria and viruses lead to
  • technologies like DNA cloning and Gene
  • DNA: Structure and Replication
  • RNA: Transcription, Processing and Decay
  • RNA synthesis, processing, and decay as
  • well as how RNA and protein factors
  • information transfer: translation (the
  • Regulation of Gene Expression in Bacteria and
  • to detect and quantify RNAs, proteins
  • and specific regions of DNA as well as
  • Genomes and Genomics
  • Know the molecular tools that molecular geneticists use such as DNA cloning, Sequencing and
  • Molecular genetics
  • Learning
  • Meiosis

Readings

  • Recommended: Course Textbooks Edition(s) Publisher
2022

Topics

  • Genetics and the questions of biology
  • Methodologies used in genetics
  • Bacteriophage genetics, transduction
  • Introduction to molecular genetics
  • Molecular developmental genetics
  • Transcription and Processing
  • RNA polymerase and transcription factor assemblages
  • Regulation of Gene Expression
  • Gene regulation in Bacteria, viruses, and Eukaryotes
  • Epigenetics, Chromatin remodelling and DNA methylation
  • Recombinant DNA
  • Gene isolation and Manipulation, restriction enzymes, plasmids, restriction enzyme
  • independent cloning, next generation sequencing, RNA Seq
  • Genomes and Genomics
  • The Genomics revolution
  • Bioinformatics
  • Comparative genomics and Human medicine
  • Learning
  • Meiosis
  • Translation
  • Synthesis
Fall 2021

Topics

  • Genetics and the questions of biology
  • Methodologies used in genetics
  • Bacteriophage genetics, transduction
  • Introduction to molecular genetics
  • Molecular developmental genetics
  • Transcription and Processing
  • RNA polymerase and transcription factor assemblages
  • Regulation of Gene Expression
  • Gene regulation in Bacteria, viruses, and Eukaryotes
  • Epigenetics, Chromatin remodelling and DNA methylation
  • Recombinant DNA
  • Gene isolation and Manipulation, restriction enzymes, plasmids, restriction enzyme independent
  • cloning, next generation sequencing, RNA Seq
  • Genomes and Genomics
  • The Genomics revolution
  • Bioinformatics
  • Comparative genomics and Human medicine
  • Learning
  • Meiosis
  • Translation
  • Synthesis
2020-2021

Topics

  • Genetics and the questions of biology
  • Methodologies used in genetics
  • Bacteriophage genetics, transduction
  • Introduction to molecular genetics
  • Molecular developmental genetics
  • Transcription and Processing
  • RNA polymerase and transcription factor assemblages
  • Regulation of Gene Expression
  • Gene regulation in Bacteria, viruses, and Eukaryotes
  • Epigenetics, Chromatin remodelling and DNA methylation
  • Recombinant DNA
  • Gene isolation and Manipulation, restriction enzymes, plasmids, restriction enzyme independent
  • cloning, next generation sequencing, RNA Seq
  • Genomes and Genomics
  • The Genomics revolution
  • Bioinformatics
  • Comparative genomics and Human medicine
  • Learning
  • Meiosis
  • Translation
  • Synthesis
2019-2020

Topics

  • Genetics and the questions of biology
  • Methodologies used in genetics
  • Bacteriophage genetics, transduction
  • Introduction to molecular genetics
  • Molecular developmental genetics
  • Transcription and Processing
  • RNA polymerase and transcription factor assemblages
  • Regulation of Gene Expression
  • Gene regulation in Bacteria, viruses, and Eukaryotes
  • Epigenetics, Chromatin remodelling and DNA methylation
  • Recombinant DNA
  • Gene isolation and Manipulation, restriction enzymes, plasmids, restriction enzyme independent
  • cloning, next generation sequencing, RNA Seq
  • Genomes and Genomics
  • The Genomics revolution
  • Bioinformatics
  • Comparative genomics and Human medicine
  • Learning
  • Meiosis
  • Translation
  • Synthesis
2017-2018

Topics

  • Genetics and the questions of biology
  • Methodologies used in genetics
  • Bacteriophage genetics, transduction
  • Introduction to molecular genetics
  • Molecular developmental genetics
  • Transcription and Processing
  • RNA polymerase and transcription factor assemblages
  • Regulation of Gene Expression
  • Gene regulation in Bacteria, viruses, and Eukaryotes
  • Epigenetics, Chromatin remodelling and DNA methylation
  • Recombinant DNA
  • Gene isolation and Manipulation, restriction enzymes, plasmids, restriction enzyme independent
  • cloning, next generation sequencing, RNA Seq
  • Genomes and Genomics
  • The Genomics revolution
  • Bioinformatics
  • Comparative genomics and Human medicine
  • Learning
  • Meiosis
  • Translation
  • Synthesis
2016-2017

Topics

  • Genetics and the questions of biology
  • Methodologies used in genetics
  • Bacteriophage genetics, transduction
  • Introduction to molecular genetics
  • Molecular developmental genetics
  • Transcription and Processing
  • RNA polymerase and transcription factor assemblages
  • Regulation of Gene Expression
  • Gene regulation in Bacteria, viruses, and Eukaryotes
  • Epigenetics, Chromatin remodelling and DNA methylation
  • Recombinant DNA
  • Gene isolation and Manipulation, restriction enzymes, plasmids, restriction enzyme independent
  • cloning, next generation sequencing, RNA Seq
  • Genomes and Genomics
  • The Genomics revolution
  • Bioinformatics
  • Comparative genomics and Human medicine
  • Critical thinking
  • Synthesis
2015-2016

Topics

  • Genetics and the questions of biology
  • genetics, Model organisms, Genes, the environment, and the organism
  • Bacterial conjugation, Bacterial transformation, Bacteriophage genetics, transduction, Physical maps and
  • Introduction to molecular genetics
  • Recombinant DNA
  • restriction enzymes
  • plasmids
  • phage blue/white screening
  • Northern
  • Southern
  • in situ, Microarrays
  • technique and applications - from genetic testing, forensics, phylogenetics to multiplex PCR
  • Transcription
  • RNA polymerase and transcription factor assemblages
  • DNA methylation
  • Splicing
  • The highlights of protein synthesis and its regulation
  • Critical thinking
2014-2015

Topics

  • Genetics and the questions of biology
  • genetics, Model organisms, Genes, the environment, and the organism
  • Bacterial conjugation, Bacterial transformation, Bacteriophage genetics, transduction, Physical maps and
  • Introduction to molecular genetics
  • Recombinant DNA
  • restriction enzymes
  • plasmids
  • phage blue/white screening
  • Northern
  • Southern
  • in situ, Microarrays
  • technique and applications - from genetic testing, forensics, phylogenetics to multiplex PCR
  • Transcription
  • RNA polymerase and transcription factor assemblages
  • DNA methylation
  • Splicing
  • The highlights of protein synthesis and its regulation
  • Critical thinking
2013-2014

Topics

  • Recombinant DNA
  • restriction enzymes
  • plasmids
  • phage blue/white screening
  • Northern
  • Southern
  • in situ, Microarrays
  • technique and applications - from genetic testing, forensics, phylogenetics to multiplex PCR
  • Transcription
  • RNA polymerase and transcription factor assemblages
  • DNA methylation
  • Splicing
  • The highlights of protein synthesis and its regulation
  • Genetics and the questions of biology
  • genetics, Model organisms, Genes, the environment, and the organism
  • Bacterial conjugation, Bacterial transformation, Bacteriophage genetics, ransduction, Physical maps and
  • Critical thinking
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