BIOL 421
Conservation Genetics
2017-2018
Topics
- genetics that are germane to conservation: mutation
- the Hardy Weinberg theorem and its assumptions
- genetic drift
- genetically effective population size
- natural selection
- gene flow and population
- concerns in the conservation of biodiversity, especially the application of basic theory to declining
- populations: inbreeding depression
- the relationship between neutral genetic variation and fitness
- genetic
- prioritizing population units for conservation
- conservation implications of hybridization
- the genetic
- aid non-genetic problems in conservation: e.g., disease
- adaptation to anthropogenic changes
- alien
- Ethics
- Critical thinking
- Conservation biology
- Quantitative genetics
- Climate change
2014-2015
Topics
- genetics that are germane to conservation: mutation
- the Hardy Weinberg theorem and its assumptions
- genetic drift
- genetically effective population size
- natural selection
- gene flow and population
- concerns in the conservation of biodiversity, especially the application of basic theory to declining
- populations: inbreeding depression
- the relationship between neutral genetic variation and fitness
- genetic
- prioritizing population units for conservation
- conservation implications of hybridization
- the genetic
- aid non-genetic problems in conservation: e.g., disease
- adaptation to anthropogenic changes
- alien
- Ethics
- Critical thinking
- Conservation biology
- Quantitative genetics
- Climate change
2013-2014
Topics
- genetics that are germane to conservation: mutation
- the Hardy Weinberg theorem and its assumptions
- genetic drift
- genetically effective population size
- natural selection
- gene flow and population
- concerns in the conservation of biodiversity, especially the application of basic theory to declining
- populations: inbreeding depression
- the relationship between neutral genetic variation and fitness
- genetic
- prioritizing population units for conservation
- conservation implications of hybridization
- the genetic
- aid non-genetic problems in conservation: e.g., disease
- adaptation to anthropogenic changes
- alien
- Ethics
- Critical thinking
- Conservation biology
- Quantitative genetics
- Climate change
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Syllabus / course outline ↗2017-2018
- Syllabus / course outline ↗2014-2015
- Syllabus / course outline ↗2013-2014