BIOLOGY 2C03 Lecture Notes - Sickle-Cell Disease, Blood Film, Linus Pauling
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Define, recognize, describe and apply mendel"s first principle. Develop a useful definition for a gene. Solve genetic problems relating to monohybrid crosses. Use the rules of probability to determine genotypic and phenotypic. Determine dominance relationships at different phenotypic levels. Genetics plays a critical role in understanding disease. Complex genes: heart disease, diabetes, multiple genes which increase or decrease the risk of developing disease and is associated with environmental influences. Genetics used biotechnology industry for drug design, development, and production. First attempt at creating a synthetic organism from a genome. A gene is the fundamental unit of heredity. Unit of information that encodes a genetic characteristic. Genes come in multiple forms called alleles. Can also be carried in rna, for example, influenza. Genetic information is transferred from dna to rna to protein. Genetic information can also be carried in rna. Gregor johann mendel discovered basic principles of heredity. Several traits existed 2 easily distinguished forms.