Genetics

Undergraduate

The course reviews transmission genetics and principles of inheritance. The material also includes non- nuclear inheritance and gene linkage, gene expression and regulation, mechanisms and phenotypic effects of DNA mutation and repair, and the principles and applications of population and quantitative genetics. Students will be exposed to molecular genetic techniques such as PCR and DNA sequencing. (Prerequisite: BIOL-1111 and BIOL-1101.) (3 lecture, 3 laboratory hours a week.)