4.00 Credits
This course covers Mendelian principles, mitosis and meiosis, sex determination and linkage, pedigree analysis, chromosomal mapping, cytogenetics, gene expression, mutation, and DNA repair. Non-Mendelian inheritance, population genetics, and the genetics of evolution are also studied. The laboratory portion of the course examines the techniques of classical and molecular genetics. This course includes three (3) hours of lecture and three (3) hours of laboratory each week.