Course Introduction, Time Table and Key dates
Course Material
- Course Introduction, Time Table and Key dates
- Week 1, Definition of genetics, concept of hereditary and variation.
- Week 2, Sexual reproduction in plants and hybridization. Preformation and epigenesis theories about inheritance, Darwian’s hypothesis of pangenesis.
- Week 3, Inheritance of acquired characters, germplasm theory of inheritance, Cell Structure
- Week 4 Cell cycles, Mitosis, Meiosis
- Week 5, Plant Reproduction, Brief life sketch of Mendel, Reasons for Mendel’s choice of pea plant for study of inheritance.
- Week 6, Law of Segregation, Law of Independent Assortment
- Week 7, Chromosome theory of heredity
- Week 8, Lethal Genes
- Week 10 and 11, Gene interaction, Epistasis
- Week 12, Multiple Alleles
- Week 13, Linkage and Crossing Over
- Week 14, Chromosomal Abberations
- Week 15, Quantitative Inheritance
- Week 16, Classical Concept of Gene
- Week 17, Sex Linked Inheritance
- Chapters 16
- Department Plant Breeding and Genetics
- Teacher
Dr. Usman Saleem
