Difference between revisions of "Organization of genetics topics"
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*distinction between the germ-line and the soma | *distinction between the germ-line and the soma | ||
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*alleles and morphs | *alleles and morphs | ||
*penetrance and expressivity | *penetrance and expressivity | ||
Revision as of 12:14, 22 August 2014
I am interested in what people thin the best organization of genetics topics might be.
Genetics is a vast, rapidly changing field. There are connections to other diverse fields such as psychology, law, medicine, history, and teaching. A classic way to divide genetics topics is into classical, molecular, and population genetics; however, I suspect this leaves out important areas.
The topics I would like an introductory genetics class to cover include:
- Mendelian Inheritance and Punnet Squares
- Complementation tests
- Genetic linkage and recombination
- metabolic pathways, developmental pathways, and epistasis
- gene structure, gene expression regulation, protein structure, and the central dogma
- genome structure and organization
- chromosomes, mitosis and meiosis, nondisjunction, aneuploidy, polyploidy
- sex chromosomes and sex determination systems
- aneuploidy and polyploidy
- distinction between the germ-line and the soma
- types of mutations and their effects
- alleles and morphs
- penetrance and expressivity
- transposable elements
- pedigree analysis
- LOD scores
- the chi-square test and degrees of freedom
- quantitative genetics of complex traits and the regression
- methods of genetic engineering and germ line transformation
- genetic tools such as binary expression systems, PCR, Sanger sequencing, next generation sequencing, restriction endonucleases, and plasmid engineering
- forward genetics and reverse genetics
- personal genomics
- introductory developmental genetics
- the history of eugenics and laws regarding genetic data
- genetic pest management and selfish genes
- medical and cancer genetics
- genetic anthropology
- inbreeding and population structure
- average heterozygosity and effective population size, the coalescent
- X-inactivation, imprinting and epigenetics
- species phylogenies
- selection and genetic drift
- probability rules
- binomial distributions
- normal distribution
- Poisson distribution
- ---to be continued---
