BIOL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Albinism, Wild Type, Melanin
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Outline: genetics, model organisms for genetic research, some history of genetics, subfields within genetics, core fundamental concepts of genetics. Genetics is rapidly becoming backbone of all biomedical fields. Pharmaceuticals- different people respond to drugs differently; genetics is largely responsible to patient outcomes. Medicine- how a patient responds to medical therap and treatment is largely governed by genetics. Who we are and what we do we do because of the six feet of nucleic acid in our cells our dna, our genome. You cant spend a moment in life sciences w/o encountering genetics. As our knowledge of biology grows, our understanding of genetics grow and societal changes and policies will be directly relevant. The human genome consists of 20,000 genes. Each of these genes is the instructions for building a single protein; these proteins, when built, carry out all of the cellular processes that keep us alive.
