Week 13: Protein synthesis, universality of genetic information transfer, eukaryotic RNA. Translation
Chapter 13: The Genetic Code and Transcription, page 342,
Chapter 14: Tanslation and Proteins, page 371,
In book
Concepts of Genetics Global Edition by Klug, William S. Cummings, Michael R. Spencer, Charlotte A. Michael A. Palladino (Eleventh Edition). Pearson Education Limited, 2016.
Course Material
- Week 1: Extensions of Mendelian Analysis: Variations on dominance, multiple alleles, lethal alleles
- Week 2: Several genes affecting the same character, penetrance and expressivity
- Week 3: Linkage I: Basic Eukaryotic Chromosome Mapping : The discovery of linkage, recombination, linkage symbolism, linkage of genes on the X chromosome
- Week 4: Linkage maps, three-point test cross, interference, linkage mapping by recombination in humans
- Week 5: Linkage II: Special Eukaryotic Chromosome Mapping Techniques: Accurate calculation of large map distances, analysis of single meiosis
- Week 6: Mitotic segregation and recombination, mapping human chromosomes.
- Week 7: Recombination in Bacteria and their Viruses: Bacterial chromosome, bacterial conjugation, bacterial recombination and mapping the E.coli chromosome
- Week 8: Bacterial transformation, bacteriophage genetics, transduction, mapping of bacterial chromosomes, bacterial gene transfer.
- Week 9: MID TERM EXAMINATION
- Week 10: The Structure of DNA: DNA: The genetic material, DNA replication in eukaryotes, DNA and the gene
- Week 11: The Nature of the Gene: How genes work, gene- protein relationships, genetic observations explained by enzyme structure, genetic fine structure, mutational sites, complementation.
- Week 12: DNA Function: The genetic code, Transcription
- Week 13: Protein synthesis, universality of genetic information transfer, eukaryotic RNA. Translation
- Week 14: The Extranuclear Genome: Variegation in leaves of higher plants, cytoplasmic inheritance in fungi
- Week 15: Extranuclear genes in chlamydomonas, mitochrondrial genes in yeast, extragenomic plasmids in eukaryotes
- Week 16: Developmental Genetics: Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Crown gall disease in plants, cancer as a developmental genetic disease
- Week 17: Population Genetics: Gene frequencies, conservation of gene frequencies, equilibrium, Hardy-Weinberg law, factors affecting gene equilibrium
- Week 18: FINAL TERM EXAMINATION
- Chapters 18
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