Lecture notes as pdf files

Lecture notes (not annotated) in pdf format, full-sized pages. Your computer must have Adobe Acrobat Reader 2.1 or higher (preferably 4.0) to view these files.

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September | October | November | December


All lecture notes together in one giant PDF file (4.3 MB), with bookmarks and thumbnails for your navigating pleasure.

September

Week 1

Lecture 1, Mon 9/25/00 -- Introduction

Lecture 2, Tue 9/26/00 -- Monohybrid cross

Lecture 3, Wed 9/27/00 -- Genes are made of DNA

Lecture 4, Fri 9/29/00 -- Alleles at the molecular level

October

Week 2

Lecture 5, Mon 10/2/00 -- Mitosis and meiosis

Lecture 6, Tue 10/3/00 -- Chromosome theory of inheritance

Lecture 7, Wed 10/4/00 -- Pedigree analysis

Lecture 8, Fri 10/6/00 -- Independent assortment

Week 3

Lecture 9, Mon 10/9/00 -- Linkage and recombination

Lecture 10, Tue 10/10/00 -- Gene mapping - 1: linkage maps

Lecture 11, Wed 10/11/00 -- Gene mapping - 2: assigning genes to chromosomes

Lecture 12, Fri 10/13/00 -- TIme out: Review of molecular biology methods

Week 4

Lecture 13, Mon 10/16/00 -- Gene mapping - 3: High resolution maps

Lecture 14, Tue 10/17/00 -- Gene mapping-4: Positional cloning

Week 5

Lecture 15, Mon 10/23/00 -- Mutations and mutagenesis

Lecture 16, Tue 10/24/00 -- Cytogenetics - 1: Changes in chromosome structure

Lecture 17, Wed 10/25/00 -- Cytogenetics - 2: Structural changes, cont’d

Lecture 18, Fri 10/27/00 -- Cytogenetics - 3: Changes in chromosome number

Week 6

Lecture 19, Mon 10/30/00 -- Mitotic recombination

Lecture 20, Tue 10/31/00 -- Cancer genetics - 1

November

Lecture 21, Wed 11/1/00 -- Cancer genetics - 2

Lecture 22, Fri 11/3/00 -- Other genomes: Extrachromosomal inheritance

Week 7

Lecture 23, Mon 11/6/00 -- Epigenetic inheritance

Lecture 24, Tue 11/7/00 -- Genetic analysis-1

Lecture 25, Wed 11/8/00 -- Genetic interaction ñ modified dihybrid ratios

Week 8

Lecture 26, Mon 11/13/00 -- Genetic analysis-2: Pathways

Lecture 27, Tue 11/14/00 -- Gene regulation - 1

Week 9

Lecture 28, Mon 11/20/00 -- Gene regulation - 2

Lecture 29, Tue 11/21/00 -- Developmental genetics - 1

Lecture 30, Wed 11/22/00 -- Developmental genetics - 2

Week 10

Lecture 31, Mon 11/27/00 -- Genetic disorders-1: Detection

Lecture 32, Tue 11/28/00 -- Genetic disorders-2: Treatment

Lecture 33, Wed 11/29/00 -- Behavioral genetics

December

Lecture 34, Fri 12/1/00 -- Quantitative traits

Week 11

Lecture 35, Mon 12/4/00 -- Population genetics - 1

Lecture 36, Tue 12/5/00 -- Population genetics - 2

Lecture 37, Wed 12/6/00 -- Population genetics - 3

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