Genetics Laboratory Manual

Genetics Laboratory Manual provides practical experiences for students to support the theoretical and conceptual genetics topics taught in the lecture. Students will conduct experiments that examine cell division in plant and animal cells, crossing over in Sordaria, and chromosome mapping. Using the well-studied model organism Drosophila, students will replicate Mendel's dihybrid cross to demonstrate inheritance and the law of independent assortment. Students will also examine X-linkage inheritance by using fruit flies. Several molecular genetics concepts will also be demonstrated by the extraction and analyses of DNA from animal cells as well as analysis of inheritance by studying human chromosomes.