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• Week 1: Basic molecular Genetic Mechanisms
• Week 2: Structure and Chemistry of nucleic acids, RNA and Proteinsynthesis
• Week 3: Gene Cloning and Sequencing Outline of DNA cloning methods, Cloning vectors including plasmids, Bacteriophages
• Week 4: Cosmids and expression vectors, Gene splicing, Chromosome walking, Development of gene libraries
• Week 5: DNA Amplification and Gel Electrophoresis, Gene sequencing. Potentials of recombinant DNA technology
• Week 6: Introduction to DNA amplification and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Gel electrophoresis of DNA
• Week 7: Pulse-field agarose gel electrophoresis, Southern blotting, Northern and western blotting, In situ hybridization, DNA microarray.
• Week 8: Transgenic Proteins, Organisms and Gene Therapies
• Week 9: Mid Term Examinations
• Week 10: Reproduction of transgenic proteins, transgenic organisms and gene therapies
• Week 11: Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
• Week 12: Microsatellite/SSR, Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)
• Week 13: Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP).
• Week 14: Molecular definition of a gene, Analysis of gene structure and expression
• Week 15: Deactivating the function of specific genes in eukaryotes, Prokaryotes (E. coli)
• Week 16: Eukaryotes (Arabidopsis thaliana and yeast) and Human genome project.
• Week 17: Genetic and physical mapping of gene
• Week 18: Final Term examinations