An-Najah Staff

Course Content

Weeks

1: Introduction

1.1. History of genetics

1.2. The cell

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2: Cell Division

3.1. Mitosis

3.2. Meiosis

2-3

3: The molecular basis of inheritance

            2.1. The genetic material in living beings.

2.2. DNA structure

            2.3. DNA replication and transmission.

            2.4. Chromosomes

4-6

4: Mendelian Genetics

4.1. Mendel’s principles.

4.2. Probability concepts in Genetics.

4.3. Gene interaction (Epistasis)

            4.4. Genotype and phenotype.

7-8

5: Beyond Mendel

5.1. Incomplete and Co-dominance

5.2. Multiple Alleles

9

6: Linkage and Linkage Mapping

6.1. Linkage and Crossing Over

6.2. Calculating Linkage Map Distances

10-11

7: Population Genetics: 

7.1. Allelic, Genotypic and Phenotypic Frequencies

7.2. Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

12-13

8: Genetic engineering

14-15