BIO SCI 97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Molecular Genetics, Heredity, Archaea
4 Dec 2017
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Complete, and understand, all of the assigned problems. Why do some diseases run in families? how does an embryo know how to grow into an. Improve food & engineer products to treat disease. Understand the fundamental rules governing why offspring look like their parents. Understand why things like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes run in families. Understand the relationship between genotype (the genes you have) and phenotype (what traits you possess) Humans have been doing genetics for 10,000 years! Pre-1950s: transmission genetics: establishing the fundamentals rules of heredity. Post-1950s: the era of molecular genetics and molecular biology begins with discovering that dna is the heritable material and what dna looks like at the molecular level. How to design and use controlled experiments to study the transmission of traits. Fundamentally, transmission genetics is the science of using experiments to solve. There are things called genes that control traits. Variation in these genes is responsible for heritable differences between individuals.
