GENERAL GENETICS 1

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: ( ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY 101 and 102 , or ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY/BOTANY 151 , BIOCORE 381 , or BOTANY/BIOLOGY 130 ) and ( CHEM 104 , 109 , or 115 ). Not open to students with credit for GENETICS 466 . Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness Breadth - Biological Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Employ Mendel’s laws of inheritance and rules of probability to predict the outcome of genetic crosses Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate how genes are mapped along chromosomes based on an understanding of meiosis and recombination Audience: Undergraduate 3. Describe the power and limitations of genetic explanations for trait variation Audience: Undergraduate 4. Highlight milestones in the history of genetics Audience: Undergraduate 5. Recall core principles that govern the structure and function of DNA, RNA, and protein Audience: Undergraduate 6. Explain how molecules and molecular processes carry out accurate information flow from DNA to RNA to protein in bacteria and eukaryotes Audience: Undergraduate 7. Describe mechanisms that control expression of selected genes in cells Audience: Undergraduate 8. Solve problems by applying techniques for quantifying the expression, interaction, and cellular localization of DNA, RNAs, and proteins Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Employ Mendel’s laws of inheritance and rules of probability to predict the outcome of genetic crosses Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate how genes are mapped along chromosomes based on an understanding of meiosis and recombination Audience: Undergraduate 3. Describe the power and limitations of genetic explanations for trait variation Audience: Undergraduate 4. Highlight milestones in the history of genetics Audience: Undergraduate 5. Recall core principles that govern the structure and function of DNA, RNA, and protein Audience: Undergraduate 6. Explain how molecules and molecular processes carry out accurate information flow from DNA to RNA to protein in bacteria and eukaryotes Audience: Undergraduate 7. Describe mechanisms that control expression of selected genes in cells Audience: Undergraduate 8. Solve problems by applying techniques for quantifying the expression, interaction, and cellular localization of DNA, RNAs, and proteins Audience: Undergraduate