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• 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