PHAR 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stomach Cancer, International Hapmap Project, F1 Hybrid

• School: McGill University
• Department: Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• Course: PHAR 300
• Professor: Edith Zorychta

Document Summary

*intro to course : get required text book. *midterm : thursday 18 february (6:00 8:00pm) + covers lectures 1 - 14. : controlled crosses + fruit flies + mutation. Mutation : place where it all starts in genetics, interested in how organisms function (biological function). Take apart the organism and see how it works using mutation relying the existence on the naturally occurring mutation (spontaneuous) or induced-mutation either tway, it helps us dissect how organisms function/phenotype due to cause of a given mutation. Yous tart out with the dna sequence but you are working out the functional concept of that gene) Genetics as an information science: dealing with huge amounts of info. How info is transferred from one generation to the next and how is the info copied, transcribed, translated, etc. We can also talk about genetics thru eveolutionary times ( how is the info involved in our ancestors passed down and how it was partitioned down in different species).