Fundamentals of Genetics

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This course will cover the basic principles of genetics including how genetic material replicates and is passed on, how it contains information that results in a phenotype and how it can change. Major concepts to be covered include the Mendelian laws of inheritance, factors that contribute to the modification of Mendelian patterns, genetic variation, linkage and meiotic mapping, sex determination, DNA structure and replication, transcription, translation, mutations, genome organization, and basic regulatory mechanisms in prokaryotic and eukaryotic gene expression.