BIOLOGY 461 GENETICS LABORATORY

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  Collection of laboratory exercises designed to provide practical exposure to some of the general principles considered in Genetics.  Laboratory work will be based upon a number of organisms including bacteria, fungi, higher plants, fruit flies, and man.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:  Students will demonstrate

• Knowledge of and mastery of the general principles and techniques used in current genetic research.
• An understanding of the unique benefits and drawbacks bacteria, fungi, higher plants, Betta splendens, Artemia salina, and man as experimental organisms.
• Collection and interpretation of data.
• Use of data in writing a scientific paper.

TOPICS COVERED:

• Plant tissue culture and ultraviolet radiation
• Betta splendens Irradiation
• Betta splendens Sex Reversal
• Artemia salina
• DNA sequence
• Probability, Corn Genetics
• Protoplast Fusion
• Mitosis
• Meiosis, Barr Body
• Neurospora
• Sordaria
• DNA
• Electrophoresis
• Fingerprint Ridge Count and Human karyotype