Readings and Problems from Principles of Genetics (7th
Edition) by R. H. Tamarin
DATE |
TOPIC |
PROF. |
READING |
PROBLEMS |
| Jan. 9 | Course Introduction I. Mendelian Genetics A) History |
Dellis Dillon |
1 - 14 | --- |
| Jan. 14 | B) Monohybrid Crosses C) Exceptions to Mendel D) Summary for Dominance |
Dellis | 15 - 22 22 - 26 |
Ch. 2: 1, 4-6, 7 Ch. 2: 9, 10, 13 Ch. 2: 17-19 |
| Jan. 16 | E) Pedigrees - a Digression F) Penetrance and Expressivity |
Dillon | 98 - 102 97 - 98 |
Ch. 5: 24-28 |
| Jan. 21 | G) Dihybrid Crosses | Dillon | 26 - 37 | Ch. 2: 20-40 |
| Jan. 23 | II. Probability and Statistics A) Sampling, Order Important |
Dillon | 71 - 73 | Ch. 4: 4-8, 11-13 |
| Jan. 28 | B) Sampling, Order Irrelevant | Dillon | 73 - 75 | Ch. 4: 1, 3, 9, 10, 14 |
| Jan. 30 | FIRST MIDTERM TEST | --- | --- | --- |
| Feb. 4 | C) Chi-square Statistics | Dillon | 76 - 79 | Ch. 4: 16-20 |
| Feb. 6 | III. Genes and Chromosomes A) History |
Dillon | review 46 - 66 | Ch. 3: 4, 5, 8-10, 14 |
| Feb. 11 | B) Sex Chromosomes | Dillon | 82 - 96 | Ch. 5: 2, 3, 7, 8-10, 13-22 |
| Feb. 13 | C) Linkage and Mapping | Dillon | 109 - 122, 132 - 140 | Ch. 6: 1, 2, 4-6, 9-11 |
| Feb. 18 | (mapping continued) | Dillon | --- | Ch. 6: 31, 33-35 |
| Feb. 20 | D) Cytogenetics | Dellis | 186 - 199 | Ch. 3: 15, 16 Ch. 8: 19-22, 24-27 |
| Feb. 25 | SECOND MIDTERM TEST | --- | --- | --- |
| Feb. 27 | E) Human Genetic Disease | Dellis | 37 - 39 | Ch. 2: 42 - 45 |
| Mar. 3-7 | Spring Break | --- | --- | --- |
| Mar. 11 | IV. Molecular Genetics A) DNA Replication |
Dellis | 225 - 238 | Ch. 9: 14-17, 22 |
| Mar. 13 | B) Mutation | Dellis | 325 - 338 | Ch. 12: 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 23 |
| Mar. 18 | C) DNA Repair D) Recombination |
Dellis | 339 - 352 | Ch. 12: 28, 29, 31 |
| Mar. 20 | E) Conjugation F) Transduction |
Dellis | 154 - 168 | Ch. 7: 7, 14-16, 18-20, 23-25, 33-35 |
| Mar. 25 | G) Restriction Mapping | Dellis | 377 - 381 | Ch. 13: 22-31 |
| Mar. 27 | THIRD MIDTERM TEST | --- | --- | --- |
| Apr. 1 | H) Genetic Engineering Term Papers DUE |
Dellis | 381 - 399 | Ch. 13: 33-35, 37-39 |
| Apr. 3 | V. Polygenic Inheritance A) History B) Statistics |
Dillon | 530 - 539 | Ch. 18: 1-3 |
| Apr. 8 | C) Sources of Variance D) Heritability |
Dillon | 541 - 547 | Ch. 18: 18, 19 |
| Apr. 10 | VI. Population Genetics A) Introduction B) Hardy-Weinberg Law |
Dillon | 552 - 558 | Ch. 19: 1-4, 7, 8, 10, 16-18 |
| Apr. 15 | C) Mutation | Dillon | 570 - 573 | Ch. 20: 1-4 |
| Apr. 17 | D) Migration and Genetic Drift | Dillon | 573 - 577 | Ch. 20: 5, 7-10 |
| Apr. 22 | E) Selection | Dillon | 577 - 584 | Ch. 20: 17, 18, 21, 23 |
| May 1 | FINAL EXAM 8-11 AM | --- | --- | --- |