Course Listing for Genetics


200A Principles of Genetics (3 units)

§

Fall
Instructor(s):Staff
Activities: Lecture: 3 hours
In-depth analysis of genetic mechanisms in selected procaryotes, eucaryotes. Topics include genetic exchange (conjugation, generalized and specialized transduction, transformation), recombination (general, site-specific, illegitimate), mapping, mutagenesis (induction and consequences), mobile genetic elements, gene expression, meiotic and mitotic segregation, allelism, position effects. (BIOCHEM)


215 Laboratory Rotation (3 units)

§

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s):Staff
Activities: Laboratory: 0 - 9 hours
A laboratory rotation course to familiarize first-year students with various approaches to research. Students are required to rotate through three different laboratories in at least two subject areas, and give an open seminar at the end of each quarter. (BIOCHEM)


224 Human Genetics in Medicine (1.5 units)

§

Fall, Winter, Spring
Instructor(s):J. Gitschier
Activities: Lecture: 1 hours
Course covers topics in current human genetics research, including molecular approaches to the mapping of human chromosomes, molecular analysis of mutant human genes, use of restriction fragment length polymorphisms for linkage analysis and diagnosis, effects of chromosome imbalance, gene therapy, and environmental mutagenesis. (BIOCHEM)


250 Research (1 - 8 units)

§

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Instructor(s):Staff
Activities: Library: 3 - 24 hours
(BIOCHEM)