Syllabus Outline

Text - "Genetics" by M. W. Strickberger.

Section 1.   Cellular division and chromosomes  (ch.2,3)

mitosis and meiosis
significance of meiosis in agriculture
differences between mitosis and meiosis
evolutionary significance of meiosis
significance of mitosis in agriculture
reproductive cycles

Section 2.      Mendelian principles                     (ch 6,7)

segregation and independent assortment
the chromosome theory of heredity

Section 3.      Dominance relations and multiple alleles  (ch.9)

incomplete dominance, overdominance and     co-dominance

Section 4.      Gene interaction and lethality            (ch 11)

Each gene pair affecting a different
character, each gene pair affecting
the same character epistasis

Section 5.      Sex determination and sex linkage   (ch 12)
in diploids
sex chromosome, sex determination,
nondisjunction of
sex determining chromosomes and its
implications
sex linkage, sex ratio,

Section 6.      Chromosome variation in numbers           (ch.21)

euploidy and aneuploidy, autoploidy,
allopolyploidy
sexual aneuplioids in man

Section 7.      Environmental effects and gene expression (ch.10)

effects of external and internal
environments, phenocopies, twin studies,
concordance- discordance, nature, nurture and intelligence.