Unit AGRICULTURAL GENETIS
- Course
- Agricultural and environmental sciences
- Study-unit Code
- A002026
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Valeria Negri
- Teachers
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- Valeria Negri
- Emidio Albertini (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 27 ore - Valeria Negri
- 27 ore (Codocenza) - Emidio Albertini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline biologiche
- Academic discipline
- AGR/07
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Genetic material. Cell cycle. Mitosis and meiosis. Mendelian genetics. Population genetics. Genetics of quantitative traits.
- Reference texts
- Lorenzetti, Ceccarelli, Rosellini, Veronesi. Genetica Agraria. Pàtron Editore, Bologna
Russel. Genetica. Edizioni Pearson - Educational objectives
- the student will acquire basic knowledges on: genetic material, cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis, Mendelian genetics, genetic bases of quantitative traits and population genetics.
- Prerequisites
- None
- Teaching methods
- Classroom lessons and praticals devoted to the solving of exercises related to genetics.
- Other information
- None
- Learning verification modality
- Oral esamination
- Extended program
- Introduction to Genetics. Genotype and phenotype. Concept of species. Organization and trasmission of the genetic material. Nucleic acids. DNA replication.
Cell cycle, mitosis, meiosis and cromosome assortment. RNA transcription. Translation and genetic code. Mutations.
Mendelian Genetics. Dominance. Segregation. Random assortment. Chromosomic theory of heridity. Asscoiation and recombination of linked genes. Genetic maps. Multiple alleles.
Population genetics. Hardy-Weinberg laws. Forces that change frequencies in populations: mutation, natural selection, migration, random mating, population size and genetic drift.
Heterosis, inbreeding and inbreeding coefficient.
Genetics of Quantitative traits. Johannsen, Nillson-Ehle and East experiments. How do environments affect quantitative traits.
Genetic structure of populations.