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BIO 324 Genetics

NCE3 levelSciences10 topics

BIO 324 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Heredity and Environment:
  2. Mendel’s work on peas. Meaning of basic genetical terms (genotype,
  3. Concept of dominance, Incomplete dominance.
  4. The choromosome theory of inheritance and the gene hypothesis, nucleic
  5. Sex chromosomes, autosomes, sex determination and linkage.
  6. Mutations: lethal mutations, Polyploidy: Examples of new varieties of
  7. Human heredity e.g. colour blindness, paternity, blood groups,
  8. Problems in family that relate to sex determination, intelligence,
  9. Genetic Counseling on family characteristics e.g. blood groups, blood
  10. Applied genetics: in agriculture, medicine etc.

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Heredity and Environment:

Heredity and environment explain why organisms resemble their parents yet also differ from one another. For exam purposes, you should master how inherited factors are transmitted through genes and how environmental conditions influence the expression of those inherited traits.

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