Genetics with Dr. Rick Hershberger
Genetics
Dr. Rick Hershberger
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Overview
This course examines the maintenance, inheritance, change, and expression of genetic information at the molecular, cellular, organismal, and population levels.Course Documents
- BIO318 Syllabus
- Course description, policies, overview of assignments and evaluations.
- BIO318 Course Schedule
- Daily schedule of lectures, readings, assignments, deadlines, and exams. Hyperlinks to course notes, study guides, cases, assignments, and/or other handouts.
Course Handouts
- Chi-square to P-value table
- For calculating the P-value for a given chi-square value.
Lab Handouts
- Keeping a Laboratory Notebook
- Grading standards and online references on keeping a laboratory notebook.
- Recipes
- Recipes for common laboratory solutions and culture media.
- Micropipetting, Math, and Measuring DNA
- An exercise in micropipetting, math calculations, and measuring concentrations of DNA solutions.
- Yeast Nutritional Phenotypes
- Yeast Complementation Analysis
Bacterial Transformation with pGLO
Other Resources
- Other Genetics Web Sites
- A list of some useful and interesting web sites in genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology.
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- Introduction: The Experimental Nature of Genetics
- The Genetics of Organisms: Heredity
- The Genetics of Cells: Chromosomes
- The Chemical Basis of Heredity: Genes
- The Control of Gene Expression: Regulation
- Causes and Effects of Genetic Change: Mutation
- The Applications of Genetics: Biotechnology
- Special Topics in Genetics: Cancer, Viruses, Development
- The Genetics of Populations: Evolution
Major Themes in Genetics