Course Introduction and Key dates
Course Material
- Course Introduction 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, Reproduction, Brief life sketch of Mendel, Reasons for Mendel’s choice of pea plant for study of inheritance.
- Chapters 6
- Department Plant Breeding and Genetics
- Teacher
Dr. Naeem Akhtar
