Genetics: from genes to genomes

Part 1. Basic principles: how traits are transmitted

Mendel's principles of heredity

Extensions to Mendel's laws

Chromosomes and inheritance

Sex chromosomes

Linkage, recombination, and gene mapping

Part II. What genes are and what they do

DNA structure, replication, and recombination

Mutation

Using mutations to study genes

Gene expression: the flow of information from DNA to RNA to protein

Part III. Analysis of genetic information

Digital analysis of DNA

Genome annotation

Analyzing genomic variation

Part IV. How genes travel on chromosomes

The Eukaryotic chromosome

Chromosomal rearrangements

Ploidy

Bacterial genetics

Organellar inheritance

Part V. How genes are regulated

Gene regulation in prokaryotes

Gene regulation in eukaryotes

Epigenetics

Part VI. Using genetics

Manipulating the genomes of eukaryotes

Genetic analysis of development

The genetics of cancer

Part VII. Beyond the individual gene and genome

Variation and selection in populations

Genetic analysis of complex traits.