Syllabus
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Course Code: BOT601 Course Name: Genetics |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Heredity: Brief life history of Mendel; Terminologies; Laws of Inheritance. Modified Mandelian Ratios:Lethal Genes; Co-dominance, incompletedominance; Gene interaction (9:7; 9:4:3; 13:3; 12:3:1, 15:1); Chi Square test; Pedigree Analysis. Cytoplasmic Inheritance: Kappa particles in Paramecium, leafvariegation in Mirabilis jalapa Male sterility; Multipleallelism;Pleiotropism; Chromosome theory of Inheritance.Sex-determination and Sex-linked Inheritance. |
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| 2 | Linkage:Concept & history, complete & incomplete linkage, bridges experiment, coupling &repulsion,
recombination frequency, linkage maps based on two and three factor crosses Crossing over: concept and significance, cytological proof of crossing over. Mutations and Chromosomal Aberrations; Types of mutations, effects of physical & chemical mutagens. Numerical chromosomalchanges: Euploidy, Polyploidy and Aneuploidy. Structural chromosomal changes:Deletions, Duplications, Inversions & Translocations. |
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