Genetics 466 Summer 2002
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| 1 | June 17 M | Introduction Mendel's Law and Probability | Ch. 3 pp. 52-61 | H1, H2 Daily |
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| 2 | June 18 T | Inference and Analysing Pedigrees | Ch. 3 pp. 61-69 | H3 Daily |
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| 3 | June 19 W | Mitosis, Meiosis and Life Cycles | Ch. 2 pp. 22-48 | Daily | |
| 4 | June 20 R | Extensions of Mendelism - multiple alleles and interactions | Ch. 4 pp. 72-87 | Daily | |
| 5 | June 24 M | Inheritance of Complex Traits | Ch. 5 pp. 91-107 | H4 Daily |
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| 6 | June 25 T | Chromosomes, Heredity, and X-Linkage | Ch. 6 pp. 116-135 | Daily | |
| 7 | June 26 W | Linkage basic concepts, 2-point cross | Ch. 8 pp. 167-176 | H6 Daily |
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| 8 | June 27 R | Linkage 3-point cross, mapping functions | Ch. 8 pp. 176-183 | Program Daily |
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| July 1 M | EXAM (Lectures 1-8) | Practice Exam 1 | |||
| 9 | July 2 T | Linkage Analysis in Fungi | Ch. 9 pp. 190-198 | H7 Daily |
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| 10 | July 3 W | Polyploidy, Aneuploidy, Inversions & Translocations | Ch. 7 pp. 138-164 | H5 Daily |
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| July 4 R | FOURTH OF JULY | ||||
| 11 | July 8 M | Human Cytogenetics | Ch. 7 pp. 138-164 | Daily | |
| 12 | July 9 T | Chromosome Structure & Replication of DNA | Ch. 10 pp. 219-246, Ch. 12 pp. 255-287 | Daily | |
| 13 | July 10 W | Transcription and RNA Processing | Ch. 12 pp. 292-317 | Daily | |
| 14 | July 11 R | Translation and the Code | Ch. 13 pp. 326-355 | Daily | |
| 15 | July 15 M | Mutation, Repair & Molecular Recombination | Ch. 14 pp. 358-393 | Daily | |
| 16 | July 16 T | The Definition of the Gene: Looking Back | Ch. 15 pp. 397-421 | Daily | |
| 17 | July 17 W | Bacteriophage Genetics | Ch. 16 pp. 429-443 | Daily | |
| 18 | July 18 R | Bacterial Genetics | Ch. 17 pp. 453-473 | Daily | |
| July 22 M | EXAM (Lectures 9-18) | Practice Exam 2 | |||
| 19 | July 23 T | Mobile Elements | Ch. 18 pp. 476-493 | Daily | |
| 20 | July 24 W | Techniques of Molecular Genetics | Ch. 20 pp. 517-529, pp. 535-548 | Daily | |
| 21 | July 25 R | Genomics and Genetic Engineering | Ch. 21 pp. 553-567, Ch. 22 pp. 585-597 | Daily | |
| 22 | July 29 M | Regulation in Prokaryotes | Ch. 23 pp. 615-629 | Daily | |
| 23 | July 30 T | Regulation in Eukaryotes | Ch, 24 pp. 644-668 | Daily | |
| 24 | July 31 W | Genetics in Behavior | Ch. 26 pp. 720-726 | H4 Daily |
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| 25 | Aug. 1 R | Introduction to Population Genetics | Ch. 29 pp. 774-782 | H9 Daily |
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| 26 | Aug. 5 M | Inbreeding & Selection | Ch. 29 pp. 782-791, Ch. 5 pp. 107-113 | H10, H11 Daily |
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| 27 | Aug. 6 T | Drift & Evolution | Ch. 29 pp. 786-788, pp. 790-793 | Daily | |
| Aug. 7 W | Study Period | ||||
| Aug. 8 R | EXAM (Lectures 19-27) | Practice Exam 3 | |||