BIO220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chloroplast Dna, Y Chromosome, Conservation Biology
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Use genetic principles (especially transmission genetics) to understand evolutionary and ecological phenomena. Use knowledge of behaviour and ecology to deduce mechanisms and patterns produced in genetic data. Connect molecular biology to ecological and evolutionary biology. Apply this to conservation biology (elephants and wolves) and understand ourselves. Genetics ensure transmission of dna (resemblance of parent and offspring) Genomes (are mosaic= made of different compartments and different modes of transmission) different modes of transmission will affect spread of bene cial alleles. Genome transmission: uniparentally transmitted ( mitochondria and y, biparentlaly transmitted (autosome and x, present in all members of population, present in some, low recombination= inherited as a unit, high recombination = inherited independently. Genetic markers to track genome so we can use areas of genome that are biparentally inherited to track contributions of parents mitochondrial dna track maternal lineages. Y chromosome track paternal lineages autosome track contribution of both parents.
