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Schaum's Outline of Genetics, Fifth Edition

Schaum's Outline of Genetics, Fifth Edition

Authors: Susan Elrod and William Stansfield

Published: January 2010

eISBN: 9780071625043 0071625046 | ISBN: 9780071625036

Contents

Chapter 1 The Physical Basis of Heredity

1.1 Genetics

1.2 Cells

1.3 Chromosomes

1.4 Cell Division and Reproduction

1.5 Mendels Laws of Inheritance

1.6 Gametogenesis

1.7 Genetic Model Systems

Chapter 2 Patterns of Inheritance

2.1 Terminology

2.2 Dominant and Recessive Alleles

2.3 Crosses Involving Single Genes

2.4 Other Allelic Relationships

2.5 Probability Theory

2.6 Statistical Distributions

2.7 Crosses Involving Two or More Genes

2.8 Testing Genetic Ratios

2.9 Pedigree Analysis

Chapter 3 The Biochemical Basis of Heredity

3.1 Nucleic Acids

3.2 Protein Structure

3.3 Genetic Information Flow

3.4 Defining the Gene

3.5 Protein Synthesis

3.6 DNA Replication

3.7 Mutations

3.8 DNA Repair

Chapter 4 Genetic Interactions

4.1 Two-Factor Interactions

4.2 Epistatic Interactions

4.3 Pedigree Analysis

4.4 Nonepistatic Interactions

4.5 Interactions with Three or More Factors

4.6 Pleiotropism

Chapter 5 The Genetics of Sex

5.1 The Importance of Sex

5.2 Sex-Determining Mechanisms

5.3 Sex-Linked Inheritance

5.4 Variations of Sex Linkage

5.5 Sex-Influenced Traits

5.6 Sex-Limited Traits

5.7 Sex Reversal

5.8 Sexual Phenomena in Plants

Chapter 6 Linkage and Chromosome Mapping

6.1 Recombination Among Linked Genes

6.2 Genetic Mapping

6.3 Linkage Estimates from F[Sub(2)] Data

6.4 Use of Genetic Maps

6.5 Crossover Suppression

6.6 Tetrad Analysis in Fungi

6.7 Recombination Mapping with Tetrads

Chapter 7 Cytogenetics

7.1 The Union of Cytology with Genetics

7.2 Chromosome Structure

7.3 Variation in Chromosome Number

7.4 Variation in Chromosome Size

7.5 Variation in the Arrangement of Chromosome Segments

7.6 Variation in the Number of Chromosome Segments

7.7 Variation in Chromosome Morphology

7.8 Human Cytogenetics

Chapter 8 Quantitative Genetics

8.1 Qualitative vs. Quantitative Traits

8.2 Polygenic Traits

8.3 The Normal Distribution

8.4 Types of Gene Action

8.5 Heritability

8.6 Selection Methods

8.7 Mating Methods

Chapter 9 Population Genetics and Evolution

9.1 Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

9.2 Calculating Gene Frequencies

9.3 Testing a Locus for Equilibrium

9.4 Natural Selection and Evolution

Chapter 10 Genetics of Bacteria

10.1 Characteristics of Bacteria

10.2 Culture Techniques

10.3 Bacterial Phenotypes and Genotypes

10.4 Isolation of Bacterial Mutants

10.5 Bacterial DNA Replication and Cell Division

10.6 Bacterial Transcription

10.7 Bacterial Translation

10.8 Genetic Recombination

10.9 Regulation of Bacterial Gene Activity

10.10 Mapping the Bacterial Chromosome

Chapter 11 Viruses, Transposable Elements, and Cancer

11.1 Viruses

11.2 Bacteriophages

11.3 Eukaryotic Viruses

11.4 Transposable Elements

11.5 Cancer

Chapter 12 Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology

12.1 History

12.2 Recombinant DNA Technology

12.3 DNA Sequencing

12.4 Production of Recombinant Gene Products in Industry

12.5 Bioinformatics

12.6 The Human Genome Project

12.7 DNA Microarrays and Functional Genomics

Chapter 13 The Molecular Biology of Eukaryotes

13.1 Genome Size and Complexity

13.2 Organization of the Nuclear Genome

13.3 Gene Expression

13.4 Regulation of Gene Expression

13.5 Development

13.6 Somatic Nuclear Transfer and Cloning

13.7 Organelles

Index