BIOL 461- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 64 pages long!)

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 461
• Professor: William Zerges

Document Summary

So genetics is a science organized knowledge, & an approach. A biochemist would extract the part and analyze its function in a test tube (biochemical function) & how does the structure relate to the function. Genome like the hard-drive of a computer (has all the info) Mrna is a form of info that is translated to protein, proteins doing most of the work. All the parts come together to make phenotype. This is a wild type phenotype head of wildtype fly (did this as 4th slide) You need to study the parts in the context of the organism. Geneticist: find the genes that generate the head by generating mutants that have mutations in one gene (1 gene at a time) Infer what that function of gene is on the wild type. Antennapedia specifies antenna development here, and inhibits leg formation here. Relative to wild type, a differe(cid:374)ce i(cid:374) a(cid:374) orga(cid:374)is(cid:373)"s. Advantages: process are studied in vivo, complements other approaches.