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Course content |
- QuantitaIntroduction to genetics
- Mendelian genetics: Mendel's law and examples, Monohybrid and di- hybrid cross, recessive and dominant mutation, concept of allele
- Non-Mendelian genetics: incomplete dominance, semi- dominance, and introduction to epigenetics, Cytoplasmic inheritance, infection heredity.
- Genetic interactions: approach towards generating a network (epistasis, redundancy, synthetic lethality, lethal interactions)
- Model organisms and studies on molecular and genetic interactions
- Structure of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
- Introduction of cell biology, classification of living organisms, Prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells.
- Membrane structure and function.
- Structure and Composition of the Cell Membrane, Membrane Proteins, Transport across the Cell Membrane.
- Structural organization and function of intracellular organellesStructure and function of cytoplasm, Cytoskeletal elements and architecture, Structure and Function of mitochondria, Ribosomes, Endoplasmic reticulum, Rough endoplasmic reticulum and protein secretion, Lysosomes, The Golgi Complex, Peroxisomes, Vacuoles, plant cell organelles, Cell locomotion
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Texts/References |
- Anthony JF Griffiths et al., An Introduction to Genetic Analysis W.H. Freeman and Co 7th Edition 2000
- Watson et. al., Molecular Biology of the Gene, Pearson, 7th Edition 2013
- Jocelyn E. Krebs et al., Lewin’s Gene Jones & Bartlett Learning; 11 edition (December 31, 2012)
- Richard Kowles, Solving Problems in Genetics Springer; 2001 edition (June 21, 2001)
- Gerald Karp, Cell Biology, WILEY (Feb. 4th, 2013)
- Bruce Alberts et al., Essential Cell Biology; Richard Goldsby and Thomas J, &F/Garland, 4th Edition, (2014)Alberts, Bruce.; Molecular Biology of the Cell, Garland Science; 5th edition (2 January 2008)
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