Human Heredity

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Course Description: This course stresses the importance of human heredity in one's daily life, how to keep up with the rapidly changing areas of human heredity, and how to learn more about specific genetic disorders that are of interest to students and their families.  It covers the role and importance of genetic counselors and the genetic tests for disorders. The course includes the role of genetics in medicine, agriculture, and recombinant DNA technology.  

All of this term's course handouts are available below.

  • Learning Outcomes:

    1)      Define basic biology/genetics concepts and terminology.

    2)      Recognize the importance of understanding human heredity for the health of oneself and the health of the family.

    3)      Research using the Internet to investigate human genetic disorders and to analyze the information available from the Human Genome Project.

    4)      Recognize genetic disorders and the modes of inheritance.  Be able to predict the risks of inheritance of various genetic disorders.

    5)      Distinguish the cause and results of mutations as well as investigate the role of dermatogens in birth defects.

    6)      Demonstrate the role and importance of genetic counselors.

    7)      Indicate the genetic tests available. Analyze the medical, psychological and legal consequences of taking these tests.

    8)      Investigate bioethics.

    9)  Describe recombinant DNA technology and demonstrate the many uses and products that   have resulted from this area.

     

 

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