Genetics Notes

Mendelian Genetics

• Menedelian Genetics : Mendel and Birth of Genetics; Law of Dominance, Law of Segregation and Law of independent Assortment, and Importance of Mendelism

• Reasons for Mendel's Success

• Exceptions to Mendel's Law: Incomplete Dominance and Codominace 

• What is a gene

• Gene and Allele

Dominance Relations and Lethality

• Overdominance

• Pleiotropism

• Lethal genes

Gene Interactions

• Epistasis: Definition, Types with examples

• Complementary gene examples

Multiple Alleles

• ABO Blood Group

Human Genetic Disorders

• Human Genetic Disorder - Abnormalities of Autosomes

• Sex Chromosome Disorders

• Autosomal Dominant Disorders

• Autosomal Recessive Disorders: Sickle cell anemia

Pedigree chart symbols

• Autosomal recessive : Examples

•  Autosomal dominant: Examples

•  Sex linked recessive: Examples

•  Sex linked dominant Examples

•  Y linked disorder

Population Genetics 

• Hardy - Weinberg Law /  Hardy Weinberg Problems / Calculating Gene frequency

Recombination in Bacteria 

• Transformation

• Conjugation 

• Sexduction 

• Transduction

• Genetic code : Definition, Characteristics and exceptions

• DNA Packaging: Nucleosome model and Folded fibre model

• Types of histones : Nucleosomal histones and H1 histones

• Breakage  Fusion Bridge cycle or BFC cycle

Model Organisms Characteristics:

• Plant model organisms 

• Mammalian and non mammalian models

DNA replication:

• The steps and Proteins involved in prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Replication  

• Lagging strand and Leading strand 

• Steps in DNA replication in Prokaryotes (E coli) 

• Why DNA polymerase can only work form 5'-3' 

• Difference between prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Replication

Transcription : Difference between Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Transcription

Organelle DNA : Mitochondrial DNA / Chloroplast DNA

Chromosomes:

• Chromosome number

• Ultra structure of Chromosome

• Morphology of chromosome 

• Types of chromosome

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