Genetics Final Exam Study Guide 2003

This does not mean that all these topics will be covered on the comprehensive portion of the exam this is just to indicate the topics covered on previous exams that could make an appearance on the final. If the topic is not mentioned here it will not be on the comprehensive portion of the final exam. The comprehensive portion will be worth approximately 50 points.

Exam I:

Lab (all exams)

Gene expression and genetics

Genes, alleles and loci

Classical Areas of Genetics

Mendel’s Laws

Dihybrid cross

Probability and Statistics

Cell Cycle

Crossing Over

Exam II:

Lab (all exams)

X-linked inheritance

Comparison of Incomplete Dominance, Codominance and a Simple Dominant/Recessive Inheritance Pattern

Multiple alleles

Epistasis

Linkage

Genetic Mapping in Diploid Organisms

Exam III:

Lab (all exams)

Genetic Transfer in Bacteria

Hfr Strains

Mapping the Bacterial Chromosome

Complementation vs. Noncomplementation

Epigenetic Inheritance