MEE 0844 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cystic Fibrosis, Coronary Artery Disease, Genetically Modified Organism

• School: Temple University
• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Course: MEE 0844
• Professor: kiani

Document Summary

Study guide for material covered in chapter 12. Study lecture slides and homework problems for chapter 12. The following are some of the material that will be covered in the next exam. Please remember that you need to be able to understand and analyze this material within various scenarios. Know the difference between a monogenic versus a polygenic disease. Compare and contrast non-viral and viral vectors. Know the difference between a transgenic organism, a knockout organism, a knockin organism, and a chimera organism. ~21,000 genes: genes= have a long stretch of molecules and you have to decide where genes start and where genes end. Phenotypes can never e identical, not even in identical twins. But genes expressed differently so phenotype very different. Genes that code for a particular trait. Two alleles for each gene (one from each parent: both identical: homozygous trait, both different: heterozygous trait.