GENETICS MIC150 Taught by Sarah Jumali

Course content 3 hour lab 5 chapters of lecture 10 slots of lab

Assessment Coursework Test – 30% (Those who did not take the exam on time, will not be allowed to take it later, no make up exam) Lab reports – 10% (The due date is on the next lab, tardiness will cost you point deduction) Final exam – 60% (Written exam/Subjective)

Lecture outline 1 st topic – Mendelian Genetics Mendel’s work Monohybbrid inheritance and principle of segregation Dihybrid inheritance and principle of independent assortment Test cross

Lecture outline 2 nd Topic – extention of Mendelian Genetics Codominance Incomplete dominance Multiple alleles Lethal alleles Epistasis Polygenic inheritance Linked genes Crossover value and genes mapping Sex linked genes

Lecture outline 3 rd Topic An overview of genetic processes The basis of heredity Nucleic acids in information storage and transfer

Lecture outline 4 th Topic – Mutations Types of mutations and their effects on organisms Phenotypic variation Chemical mutagens Radiation mutagens The repair of DNA damage The study of mutations

Lecture outline 5 th Topic – Gene transfer and genetic recombination The types and significance of gene transfer Transformation (discovery, mehcanism, significance) Transduction Conjugation

Text books Biology Campbell Microbiology in Introduction Tortora Introduction to Microbiology Black Any other books