APS125 Genes in Populations

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Lecture 12: Quantitive Genetics
Name 3 types of phenotypic variation,
Discontinuous variation,
Continous variation
37  cards
Lecture 13: Natural and artificial selection
With discontinuous traits selecti...,
How do we know that natural selec...,
Eg how do we know natural selecti...
20  cards
Lecture 1: Background & Structure
What is population genetics,
Why study population genetics,
The first theory of inheritance
6  cards
Lecture 2: Mutation, Variation and genome organisation
What are mutation,
Causes of mutation,
Karyotype
46  cards
Lecture 3: Mendelian Genetics
Mendels background,
The garden pea name,
Why did he use the garden pea
19  cards
Lecture 4: Mendelian Inheritance in humans
Mendelian or monogenic disease,
Multifactural disease,
Are all mendelian characters dise...
36  cards
Lecture 5- Chromosomes and linkage
Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly...,
Morgan and chromosomes 1903 1909 10,
In humans ___ pairs of chromosome...
16  cards
Lecture 7: Introduction to Population Genetics
A locus loci is a,
Alleles are,
In a diploid organism the two all...
19  cards
Lecture 8: Variation, selection and adaption
Classic example of natural select...,
Classic example of natural select...,
Typical form
29  cards
Lecture 9: Conservation genetics
The 6th extinction,
Habitat destruction,
Genetic drift
33  cards
Lecture 10: Human population genetics
Origin of humans,
Humans and chimps differences,
Around 42 mya
17  cards
Lecture 14: Speciation
Diversity is,
Beetles,
Species diversity is generated by...
5  cards

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