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Genetics

MIC 211/150
Nurul Hidayah Bt Adenan
Room 03-006

Course Content
3 credit hours
5 major topics will be covered (lecture)
10 topics for practical session.

Assessment

Course Work:
Tests (3 x 10%)
Assignment
Laboratory report

Final exam

60%
:30%
:10%
:20%

40%

Study Plan
Chapter/ Activity

Time

Mendelian Genetic (Chap 1)

Week 1/2

Codominance, Incomplete dominance and Multiple alleles (Chap 2)

Week 2

Polygenic Inheritance (Chap 2)

Week 3

Sex linked genes (Chap 2)

Week 4

Test 1

Week 5

Gene linkage and Genetic Mapping (Chap 2)

Week 5/6

Microbial Genetics (Chap 3)

Week 7

Gene Regulation (Chap 3)

Week 8

Test 2

Week 8/9

Genetic Mutations (Chap 4)

Week 10

DNA Repair (Chap 4)

Week 11

Genetic Transfer (Chap 5)

Week 11/12

Test 3

Week 12

Lecture Outline
Chapter 1 :Mendelian Genetics
Mendels work
Monohybrid inheritance and principle of
segregation
Dihibrid inheritance and principle of independent
assortment
Test cross

Lecture Outline
Chapter 2: Extention of Mendelian Genetics
Codominance
Incomplete dominance
Multiple alleles
Lethal alleles
Epistasis
Polygenic inheritance
Linked genes
Crossover value and gene mapping
Sex linked genes

Lecture Outline
Chapter 3: Microbial genetics
An overview of genetic processes
The basis of heredity
Nucleic acids in information storage and
transfer

Lecture Outline
Chapter 4: Mutations
Types of mutations and their effects on organisms
Phenotypic variation
Chemical mutagens
Radiation mutagens
The repair of DNA damage
The study of mutations

Lecture Outline
Chapter 5: Gene transfer and genetic recombination
The types and significance of gene transfer
Transformation (discovery, mechanism, significance)
Transduction
Conjugation

Reference Books
Brooker R.J,
2005, Genetics, Analysis and
Principles.
Addison Wesley
Russell P.J, 2010, iGenetics: A Molecular Approach
(3rd Edition). Pearson

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