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course is based on 7.03 Genetics, Fall 2004 made available by
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare under
the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. This course discusses the
principles of genetics with application to the study of
biological function at the level of molecules, cells, and
multicellular organisms, including humans. The topics include:
structure and function of genes, chromosomes and genomes,
biological variation resulting from recombination, mutation, and
selection, population genetics, use of genetic methods to
analyze protein function, gene regulation and inherited disease.
Reading Material 1. PCR (short for Polymerase Chain Reaction) is
a relatively simple and inexpensive tool that you can use to
focus in on a segment of DNA and copy it billions of times over.
PCR is used every day to diagnose diseases, identify bacteria
and viruses, match criminals to crime scenes, and in many other
ways. Step up to the virtual lab