Chapters are indicated for the 2nd Edition of of by R. Brooker McGraw Hill Publishers “Concepts Genetics” Ch. 1 Overview of Genetics Gene expression Pg. 1 19 – Genotype & phenotype 1 Ch. 2 The study of genetics Reproduction and Chromosome Transmission Pg. 20 - 41 Chromosomal features Week Mitosis & meiosis Sexual reproduction Mendelian Inheritance Ch. 3 2 Gregor Mendel and his pea plants Pg. 42 - 72 Laws of Segregation and Independent Assortment Week Inheritance patterns and probability Sex Determination and Sex Chromosomes Ch. 4 Genetics of sex determination Pg. 73 89 – Dosage compensation & X-chromosome inactivation Ch. 5 Sex chromosome properties and transmission Pg. 90 – Inheritance patterns 112 of Extensions of Mendelian Inheritance 3 Ch. 6 Dominant vs. recessive alleles Gene expression and the environment Pg. 113-120 Week Patterns Dominance and allele interactions – Sex-influenced inheritance 1 Pleiotropy, epistasis and gene interactions Extranuclear Inheritance Unit Chloroplast DNA Mitochondrial DNA Theory of endosymbiosis EXAM 1 (Background, mitosis, meiosis, Mendelian genetics, sex determination, extranuclear inheritance) Genetics of Bacteria Ch. 9 Overview of bacterial reproduction Pg. 184 – 4 Conjugation, transduction, and transformation 205 Evolution of antibiotic resistance Week Ch. 10 Genetics of Viruses Pg. 206 - Structure of viruses 219 Viral reproduction
Chapters are indicated for the 2nd Edition of “Concepts of Genetics” by R. Brooker McGraw Hill Publishers Unit 1 – Patterns of Inheritance Week 1 Overview of Genetics Gene expression Genotype & phenotype The study of genetics Reproduction and Chromosome Transmission Chromosomal features Mitosis & meiosis Sexual reproduction Ch. 1 Pg. 1 – 19 Ch. 2 Pg. 20 - 41 Week 2 Mendelian Inheritance Gregor Mendel and his pea plants Laws of Segregation and Independent Assortment Inheritance patterns and probability Ch. 3 Pg. 42 - 72 Week 3 Sex Determination and Sex Chromosomes Genetics of sex determination Dosage compensation & X-chromosome inactivation Sex chromosome properties and transmission patterns Extensions of Mendelian Inheritance Dominant vs. recessive alleles Gene expression and the environment Dominance and allele interactions Sex-influenced inheritance Pleiotropy, epistasis and gene interactions Extranuclear Inheritance Chloroplast DNA Mitochondrial DNA Theory of endosymbiosis Ch. 4 Pg. 73 – 89 Ch. 5 Pg. 90 – 112 Ch. 6 Pg. 113-120 Week 4 EXAM 1 (Background, mitosis, meiosis, Mendelian genetics, sex determination, extranuclear inheritance) Genetics of Bacteria Overview of bacterial reproduction Conjugation, transduction, and transformation Evolution of antibiotic resistance Genetics of Viruses Structure of viruses Viral reproduction Ch. 9 Pg. 184 – 205 Ch. 10 Pg. 206 - 219
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