Fall 2011

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    Date
    Lecture No.
    Topic*
    		 
    Pierce, 
    Genetics Essentials-Concepts and Connections,  1st Ed
    Sept 26 ¶
    1
    Introduction

    'When a Gene Makes You Smell Like A Fish'
    1:1-12
    28 ¶
    2
    Mitosis and Meiosis

    "Blind Man's Riddle"
    2:15-35
    29 ¶
    3
    Gregor Mendel and His Peas

    'Genetics of Red Hair'
    3:39-45
    30  ¶
    4
    DNA Chemistry

    'Neanderthal's DNA'
    8:193-204
    Oct 3 ¶
    5
    DNA, It's Replication

    'Preventing Train Wrecks'
    9:219-235
    5 ¶
    6
    Transcription and RNA
    10:243-249
    7
    DNA to Proteins

    Translation and the Genetic Code

    'Diptheria Toxin'
    10:253-263
    11:271-284
    7 ¶
    8
    Structure of the Chromosome

    'How Much DNA Makes an Organism?'
    8:207-213
    10  ¶
    9
    Mendelian Genetics in Animals-Dominance/Recessive

    'Peas to Animals'
    3:39-47
    12*

    12a ¶
    10
    Probability*

    Tests of a Genetic Hypothesis

    'Am I Correct ?'
    3:49;
    56-59
    13 ¶
    11
    Two or More Pairs of Genes

    'Segregation Behavior'
    3:52-56
    14 ¶
    12
    Penetrance, Expressivity, and Multiple Alleles

    'More About the Phenotype'
    4:84
    17
    13
    Exam # 1

    19 ¶
    14
    Sex-linked Inheritance

    'X,Y,Z, and W'
    4:70-82
    20 ¶
    15
    Sex-limited and -influenced Traits, Dosage Effects

    'Eggs and Roosters'
    4:70-82
    21 ¶
    16
    Epistasis and Modifying Alleles

    'Yellow Coat Color in Labrador Retrievers'
    4:87-90
    24 ¶
    17
    Epistasis and Modifying Alleles cont'd,

    'The Rat Tail Syndrome'

    26 ¶
    18
    Lethal Alleles,Their Detection, and Consequences

    'Cuenot's Odd Yellow Mice'
    4:69
    27 ¶
    19
    Linkage

    'Fruit Flies With White Eyes'
    7:160-89
    28 ¶
    20
    Chromosome Aberrations

    'Once In A Blue Moon'
    7:170-183
    31 ¶
    21
    Ectodermal Dysplasia 
    A Case Study

     

    Nov 2 ¶

    3 
    22-23
    Gene Frequency and the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

    'Counting Alleles'
    17:430-43
    4
    24

    Exam #2

    7 ¶
    25
    Quantitative Inheritance

    'Porkier Pigs'
    17:407-420
    9 ¶

    10 ¶
    26-27
    Genetic Selection

    'Which Way ?'
    16:421-423
    11 ¶
    28
    Selection Methods

    'Do they work and for how long?'

    16:422-423
    14 ¶
    29
    Genetic Correlations
    'What's happening?'

    16 ¶
    30
    Inbreeding
    'Relatives'
    17:436
    17 ¶
     
    31

    Heterosis & GxE Interaction
    --
    18 ¶
    32
    Breeding for Disease Resistance

    'A Strategy'
    14:368
    21 ¶
    33
    Breeding Objectives and Plans

    'How To'

           --            
    23-28-30 ¶
    34-35-36
    Molecular Genetics

    'The Search for QTL's'
    14


    Molecular Genetics, cont'd.

    Molecular Genetics, cont'd.

    Dec  1
    37
    Biochemical Markers/Genetics
    'The 4 Categories, Jumping Genes, Protein Polymorphisms'
    13:321-39
    2
    38
    Gene Conservation

    'Why Save?'

    		 17:429
    8
    39
    Comprehensive Final Exam

    9:30 AM


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