Objectives- The course objectives to provide students with a basic understanding of:
Learning outcomes- By the end of the course, students will be able to:
Mendelian inheritance patterns & laws of heredity
Co and incomplete dominance
Interactions of Genes- Supplementary, Complementary, Duplicate, Epistasis(dominant & recessive)
Multiple alleles-Coat colour in rabbit, Human blood group-ABO & Rh
Gene expression- Lethal genes, Pleiotropic genes
Multiple genes- Seed coat in wheat, skin colour in human
Linkage & construction of linkage maps
Crossing over- Mechanism, theories, Cytological detection & significance
Cytoplasmic inheritance
Human genetics- Chromosomal & single gene disorder, Genetics counseling, Amniocentesis
Eugenics & Euthenics
Determination of Sex – Chromosomal mechanism & environmental influence, the sexual function of X &Y chromosome, Gyandromorphs, Genic Balance Theory,
Sex linked inheritance in man & Drosophila, Y linked genes, Sex limited genes, Sex influenced genes
Mutations- Chromosomal aberrations, Gene mutations
Introduction, scope and application of Biostatistics
Frequency distribution
Graphical presentation of data (bar diagram, frequency polygon, histogram, pie chart)
Mean. mode, median and their significance
Standard deviation ,variance and coefficient of variance
Tests of significance- t-test(1 population & 2 population test), Chi-square( independence of attributes)
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