Genetics

Catalog description

In this course, basic principles of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genetics are applied to the study of biological function at the molecular, cellular and organismal levels. Topics include how biological variation results from meiotic recombination, mutation and selection; chromosome structure and karyotype alterations; pedigree analysis; analysis of Mendelian and non-Mendelian inheritance patterns; population genetics; gene structure and expression; and epigenetics. Recitation will focus on genetics problem solving using concepts learned in lecture.