BIOLOGY 105:
INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN GENETICS
Honors
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| SUNY Potsdam |
| Department of Biology |
| Spring
2008 |
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Dr. Jan Trybula
205-A Stowell Hall
trybulj@potsdam.edu
315.267.2258 |
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Bainbridge
X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls Our Lives
Harvard University Press
978-0-674-01621-7 |
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Fedoroff
Mendel in the Kitchen
Joseph Henry Press
978-0-309-09738-3 |
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Gonick
Cartoon Guide to Genetics
Harper
978-0-06-273099-2 |
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Nabhan
Why Some Like it Hot
Island Press
978-1-5972609-1-6 |
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Seachrist Chiu
When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish
Oxford University Press
978-0-19-532706-9 |
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Scott
Stem Cell Now
Plume/Penguin
978-0-452-28785-3
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Weston
A Rulebook for Arguments, 3rd edition
Hackett Publishing
978-0-87220-552-9 |
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| Course description
from Undergraduate Catalog: |
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Human genetics, including
transmission of genes, genetic ratios, chromosomal
defects, sex determination, population considerations,
introduction
to DNA and gene functions, and moral dilemmas facing society. |
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| Course content and
What to expect: |
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Genetics impacts many
aspects of our lives. We get certain traits from
our parents and give them to our children. Our foods have been
genetically
bred over millennia and today many foods have been genetically modified
by gene manipulation. The Human Genome Project is being used to help
identify
genes that, when mutated, lead to certain diseases. DNA evidence is
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used in legal cases. And medicine, politics, and ethics are currently
clashing
over issues such as human cloning and embryonic stem cell research.
Genetics
is frequently in the news, so a through grasp of its topics and unique
vocabulary
is necessary to understand how it is reported in the media and
understood
by the general public. It seems that nearly every day something new
occurs
in genetics and yet the underlying theories often remain the same. It
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our understanding of the mechanisms behind those theories that are
changing,
not the theories themselves. |
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