Lecture 1 - Mitosis and Meiosis
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Texas Christian University
2024
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This lecture introduces mitosis and meiosis, highlighting their importance in biology, including disease, development, and immunity. It also discusses the use of model organisms in genetics research and the advancements in modern genetic tools.
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Lecture 1: Mitosis and meiosis 08-20-2024 Why are you here? Or, perhaps more appropriately, why take Genetics? Impacts on many areas of Biology including – Basis of disease. – Link between phenotype and genotype. – Important in understanding our development a...
Lecture 1: Mitosis and meiosis 08-20-2024 Why are you here? Or, perhaps more appropriately, why take Genetics? Impacts on many areas of Biology including – Basis of disease. – Link between phenotype and genotype. – Important in understanding our development and immunity. – Food! Human health: determining the genetic basis of disease Most diseases are polygenic/quantitative in their inheritance. Geneticists’ tools: Model Organisms Short generation time. Carry out controlled crosses. Large number of progeny. Reared in lab settings. Importance in agriculture/human consumption. Genetics today Can now sequence the whole genome of an individual within a day. Human genome sequenced in 2003.
