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A Brief History of Genetics: Defining Experiments in Genetics

Unit 4: Deciphering the Genetic Code

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Gregor Mendel and the Principles of Inheritance

Discovery and Types of Genetic Linkage

Thomas Hunt Morgan and Sex Linkage

Thomas Hunt Morgan, Genetic Recombination, and Gene Mapping

Developing the Chromosome Theory

Chromosome Theory and the Castle and Morgan Debate

Isolating Hereditary Material: Frederick Griffith, Oswald Avery, Alfred Hershey, and Martha Chase

Discovery of DNA as the Hereditary Material using <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i>

Discovery of DNA Structure and Function: Watson and Crick

Semi-Conservative DNA Replication: Meselson and Stahl

Reading the Genetic Code

Discovering the Relationship Between DNA and Protein Production

An Unstable Intermediate Carrying Information from Genes to Ribosomes for Protein Synthesis

Introduction: What Is DNA?

DNA Is a Structure That Encodes Biological Information

Discovery of the Function of DNA Resulted from the Work of Multiple Scientists

Cells Can Replicate Their DNA Precisely

The Information in DNA Is Decoded by Transcription

The Information in DNA Determines Cellular Function via Translation

Introduction: How Does DNA Move from Cell to Cell?

Replication and Distribution of DNA during Mitosis

Replication and Distribution of DNA during Meiosis

DNA Is Constantly Changing through the Process of Recombination

DNA Is Constantly Changing through the Process of Mutation

Some Sections of DNA Do Not Determine Traits, but Affect the Process of Transcription: Gene Regulation

Introduction: How Is Genetic Information Passed between Organisms?

Each Organism's Traits Are Inherited from a Parent through Transmission of DNA

Inheritance of Traits by Offspring Follows Predictable Rules

Some Genes Are Transmitted to Offspring in Groups via the Phenomenon of Gene Linkage

The Sex of Offspring Is Determined by Particular Chromosomes

Some Organisms Transmit Genetic Material to Offspring without Cell Division

Introduction: How Do We Study the DNA Inside Cells?

The Order of Nucleotides in a Gene Is Revealed by DNA Sequencing

Scientists Can Make Copies of a Gene through PCR

Scientists Can Analyze Gene Function by Deleting Gene Sequences

Gene Expression Is Analyzed by Tracking RNA

Scientists Can Study an Organism's Entire Genome with Microarray Analysis

Introduction: How Does Inheritance Operate at the Level of Whole Populations?

The Collective Set of Alleles in a Population Is Its Gene Pool

The Variety of Genes in the Gene Pool Can Be Quantified within a Population

The Genetic Variation in a Population Is Caused by Multiple Factors

Genomics Enables Scientists to Study Genetic Variability in Human Populations

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4.3 An Unstable Intermediate Carrying Information from Genes to Ribosomes for Protein Synthesis

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Reading the Genetic Code

Discovering the Relationship Between DNA and Protein Production

An Unstable Intermediate Carrying Information from Genes to Ribosomes for Protein Synthesis

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