MBG 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Allele Frequency, Epigenetics, Selective Breeding

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Molecular Biology and Genetics
• Course: MBG 2400
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

Course title: mbg-2400 fundamentals of plant and animal genetics. Fundamental aspects of plant and animal genetics are covered in this course including the chromosomal basis of inheritance, natural and artificial selection, domestication, epigenetics and quantitative traits. Population dynamics and the effect of selection on allele frequencies will be introduced with examples from agricultural crop and animal species and companion animal species. Genomics will be introduced with an emphasis on the development and use of molecular genetic markers in marker-assisted selection. The science of genetics in its broadest sense is modeling the inheritance of a phenotype. Many aspects of biology influence the ability of a phenotype to be transmitted from parent to offspring. This course examines fundamental genetics concepts that shape our understanding of the inheritance of a phenotype. Each concept will be examined first in terms of genetic variation and its molecular basis in plants and animals and then re-examined in the context of quantitative traits in plants and animals.