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| Jan 21 | Course Introduction | Chapter 1 | |
| Jan 23 | Cell Structure and the Cell Cycle | Chapter 2 |
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| Jan 25 | Meiosis and Gamete Formation |
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| Jan 28 | Mendel's Laws | Chapter 3 |
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| Jan 30 | Mendel's Laws continued | ||
| Feb 1 | Variations on Mendelian Genetics | ||
| Feb 4 | Pedigree Analysis in Humans | Chapter 4 |
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| Feb 6 | Pedigree Exercise | ||
| Feb 8 | Variation in Expression and Genetic Linkage |
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| Feb 11 | Multigenic Inheritance | Chapter 5 |
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| Feb 13 | Cytogenetics and Changes in Chromosome Number |
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| Feb 15 | DNA Structure | Chapter 8 |
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| Feb 18 | EXAM 1 | ||
| Feb 20 | DNA replication |
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| Feb 22 | Gene Expression: Transcription | Chapter 9 |
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| Feb 25 | Gene Expression: Translation |
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| Feb 27 | Mutation | Chapter 11 |
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| Mar 1 | Metabolic Disorders | Chapter 10 | |
| Mar 4 | Recombinant DNA | Chapter 12 |
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| Mar 6 | More Recombinant DNA | Chapter 13 |
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| Mar 8 | Recombinant DNA exercise | ||
| Mar 18 | Genes and Cancer | Chapter 14 | more than you want to know about genes and cancer |
| Mar 20 | Genes and the Immune System | Chapter 15 | good web site on genetics and the immune system |
| Mar 22 | Review | ||
| Mar 25 | EXAM 2 | ||
| Mar 27 | Huntington's Disease Exercise | ||
| Mar 29 | Exercise continued |
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| April 1 | Instructor's presentation of a specific human genetic disease |
| April 3 | Ethics tape and discussion |
| April 5 | Ethics tape and discussion continued |
| April 8 - 22 | Student presentations of specific human genetic diseases and summary |
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| April 24 | Setting the Stage for ELSI |
| April 26 to | Student presentations/debates on ELSI |
| May 3 |
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Last modified: January 2005