Classical Genetics

INSTRUCTIONAL UNITS

Energy and Metabolism (Part 1)

Energy and Metabolism (Part 2)

Classical Genetics

Molecular Genetics (Basic)

Molecular Genetics (Advanced)

Immunology and Homeostasis

Chemical and Neural Signaling

Animal Reproduction and Development

Plant Biology

Ecology

Neuroscience

Classical Genetics
(Chapters 12-15)

Classical Genetics deals with the basic laws of inheritance first published by Gregor Mendel in the 1865 and variations to those laws that were discovered in the first half of the 20th century through work done principally on model organisms like the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. This unit also covers the relationship between meiosis and genetics which lead to the chromosomal theory of inheritance and the ramifications for a better understanding of human genetic diseases.

Lecture

Chapter 12

Mitosis Lecture (print) (audio 28:48)

Chapter 13

Meiosis Lecture (print) (audio 16:14)

Mitosis versus Meiosis Comparison (pdf)
•Thanks to Jeremy Aron-Dine (Class of '06) for this handout

Hitler is Confused By Mitosis and Meiosis

Chapter 14

Brief History of Genetics (print) (audio 3:45)

Mendelian Genetics Lecture 1 (Monohybrid Crosses) (print) (audio 14:50)

Mendelian Genetics Lecture 2 (Dihybrid Crosses) (print) (audio 7:03)

Beyond Mendel (Part 1) (print) (audio 34:34)

Chapter 15

Beyond Mendel (Part 2) (print) (audio 28:58)

Problems with the Genome (print) (audio 19:45)