BIOC19H3 Lecture : Lecture 01
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It is the study of the developing animal from the fertilized egg to the embryonic stages and finally to the adult sgate. Morphological change has also been analyzed at the molecular level. Change in gene expression underlies and controls morphological change. Turning off and on of genes underlie morphological change. To demonstrate that carrying out experiments in this course drives the field forward. The more we know about normal development, the more we understand about what goes wrong in genetic diseases, hence advancing possible therapeutic treatments for these diseases. When studying a disease, we make an animal model of the disease where the animal experiences the same symptoms as human diseases. A further task is to convert some of these findings to human clinical trials. We know how many genes are in the human genome and its sequence. Also, we have deciphered/sequenced the genome of the drosophila fruit fly and rats.
