Genetics Biol-143

Joint Science Department

of the

Claremont Colleges

Professor Ernest Y. Kwok

Mead Hall Room 131i

ekwok@jsd.claremont.edu

(909) 607-2774

Office hours: Tuesday & Thursday 1:30-3:30pm  



Lecture: Tuesday & Thursday 9:35am-10:50am Scripps Humanitites Room 119

Textbook: Genetics: Analysis and Principles, 2nd Edition.  Robert J. Brooker.  McGraw-Hill: 2005.  ISBN: 9780072965971


Class Syllabus



Schedule of Lectures and Assignments  
Tuesday Lecture Thursday Lecture
1/22 Course Introduction, Genetics, and the History of Heredity

1/24 Mendelian Genetics - Assignment Solutions

1/29 Pedigrees & Probability - Assignment Solutions

In class exercises

Link to "Facing Life with a Lethal Gene"

1/31 Chromosome Theory & Cell Division - Assignment Solutions

HW due: Mendelian Genetics

 

2/5 Complications with Single Genes - Assignment-Solutions

 

 

2/7 Gene Interactions - Assignment-Solutions

In class exercises with solutions

HW due: Pedigrees & Probabilities and Chromosome theory & Cell Division

2/12 Quantitative Genetics

Reading assignment: Chapter 24

2/14 First Midterm Exam Solutions

HW due: Single Gene Dynamics and Gene Interactions

2/19 Mapping genes in diploid organisms Assignment Solution 2/21 Mapping genes in haploid organisms Assignment Solution

2/26 Creighton & McClintock paper Assignment Solution

Creighton & McClintock Paper (pdf)

HW due: Creighton & McClintock Assignment

2/28 DNA: Structure & Function Assignment Solutions

HW due: Diploid Mapping & Happloid Mapping

 

3/4 DNA: Replication Assignment Solutions

 

3/6 DNA: Expression Assignment Solutions

HW due: DNA Structure & Function

3/11 Non-Mendelian Inheritance Assignment Solutions

3/13 Second Midterm Exam Solutions

HW due: DNA Replication & Expression

3/18 Spring Break 3/20 Spring Break

3/25 Point Mutations Assignment Solutions

 

3/27 DNA Repair & Recombination Assignment Solutions

HW due: Non-Mendelian Inheritance

4/1 Chromosome Mutations Assignment Solutions

 

4/3 Genome Mutations Assignment Solutions

HW due: Point Mutation & DNA Repair/Recombination

4/8 Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Assignment

Baikie et al. (1960) “A possible specific chromosome abnormality in human chronic myeloid leukæmia.” Nature 188:1165-6

Rowley (1973) "A new consistent chromosomal abnormality in chronic myelogenous leukaemia identified by quinacrine fluorescence and giemsa staining.” Nature 243: 290-293

HW due: CML Assignment

4/10 Third Midterm Exam Solutions

 

 

 

HW due: Chromosome & Genome Mutations

4/15 CML discussion

4/17 Molecular Mapping Assignment

4/22 Physical Mapping Assignment

 

 

4/24 The Human Genome Project

"The Human Genome" Pennisi (2001) Science 291(5507): 1177-1180

HW due: Molecular Mapping

4/29 Transposons Assignment

 

5/1 Reverse Genetics Assignment

HW due: Physical Mapping

5/6 Gene Therapy Paper Assignment

"Somatic integration and long-term transgene expression in normal and haemophilic mice using a DNA transposon system"

Yant et al. (2000) Nature Genetics 25: 35-41

HW due: Transposons & Reverse Genetics & Paper Questions

5/8 Senior Final 9:35am

 

 

 

  5/15 Regular Final 9am