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1. Introduction
2. Life expectancies in the UK (1841-2017)
3. The human genome
4. Cost to sequence a human genome (USD)
5. Additional genome projects
6. Genome editing: CRISPR
7. Changes in US corn yield
8. Species relatedness
9. Pellegra: inherited but not genetic
10. Early attempts to explain inheritance
11. Gregor Mendel
12. Mendel's peas
13. Mendel's first experiment
14. Mendel's interpretation of his experiment (1)
15. Mendel's interpretation of his experiment (2)
16. The first human disease pedigree
17. Huntington's disease
18. Cystic fibrosis: a recessive disease
19. Pedigree for cystic fibrosis
20. The characters used by Mendel
21. Mendel's second 'dihybrid' experiment
22. Explaining Mendel's dihybrid cross (1)
23. Explaining Mendel's dihybrid cross (2)
24. DNA fingerprinting
25. Dwarf rice
26. The flu virus
27. Spanish flu virus sequenced
28. Flu viruses are recombinants
29. Summary

Topics Covered

• The human genome
• Genome editing
• Why genetics is important today
• Gregor Mendel’s pea experiments and his first law
• Applications of Mendel’s first law in the context of dominant and recessive diseases in humans
• Gregor Mendel’s dihybrid experiments and his second Law
• DNA fingerprinting
• Applications of Mendel’s second law

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• Genetics & Epigenetics

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Publication History

• Published on March 31, 2019