BIOL 2800 - Genetics

4 cr. 6 hr. Day course offered in the Fall.

Basic principles of biological information processing are examined including Mendelian inheritance, sex determination, chromosome cytogenetics, linkage, recombination and genetic mapping, mutagenesis, molecular genetics and gene-enzyme relationships, and quantitative inheritance. Laboratory work includes study of mutational effects and recombinational analysis in Drosophila, bacteria, and viruses.

Prerequisite(s): A grade of at least 1.7 in BIOL 1800 .