| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
Semester 1, offshore teaching period |
| Old unit code |
139.204 |
| Outcomes |
Students become knowledgeable in and have an appreciation of (1) the basic process of gene transmission, mutation and expression; (2) the principal methods geneticists use; and (3) the social and historical context in which genetics has developed. |
| Content |
This unit aims to provide a clear, comprehensive, rigorous introduction to genetics and genome analysis. It provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts responsible for diversity of form, function and life responses found in all biological organisms. The principles of Mendelian, population, quantitative, cyto- and molecular genetics are considered, together with the implications they have for advancing understanding of human disease, plant/animal/microbe interactions, plant/animal/microbe physiology and metabolism. |
| Assessment |
This comprises a two-hour final examination (60 per cent) and continuous assessment tests throughout semester (40 per cent).
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course. |
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) |
Dr Daniela Ulgiati |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley), Singapore |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
| Prerequisites: SCIE1106 Molecular Biology of the Cell plus another Level 1 biological science unit |
| Incompatibility: GENE2240 Introduction to Genetics |
Contact hours—lectures: 2 hrs per week; labs: 2 hrs every second week; tutorials: every second week
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| Text | |
Griffiths, A. et al. Introduction to Genetic Analysis, 9th edn: WH Freeman and Co. c.2008 |
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