UNIT ONE
Basic Genetics: A Starting Point

Basic Genetics Manual

Directions
Slide Show Format
Download PDF File
Sources

 

Directions

The Basic Genetics Manual is designed to give you an overview of genetic science. Study the manual, either via the on-line slide show or by downloading the PDF file and viewing it in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Then print out a copy of the manual and keep it in your course notebook. Refer to the manual as you study the rest of Unit One and the other units in the course.

Slide Show Format

Click on the link to start the slide show of the Basic Genetics Manual. You may want to print the pages as you go along.

SLIDE SHOW

Download PDF File

Click here to download the PDF file of the Basic Genetics Manual. You need to have Adobe Acrobate Reader installed on your hard drive. Click on the Adobe link if you need to download this program.

Sources

Access Excellence, About Biotech, http://www.accessexcellence.org

Basic Genetics, Genetic Science Learning Center, http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/basic/index.html

Blazing a Genetic Trail, “A Report from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,” http://www.hhmi.org/genetictrail/

Lainie Friedman Ross, M.D., Ph.D, “A Crash Course in Genetics and Clinical Genetics.”

Lainie Friedman Ross, M.D., Ph.D, “Ethical and Policy Issues Raised by Clinical Gentics and Genetic Research.”

Genetics Research, GlzxoSmithKline, http://geneticsglaxowellcome.com


Matt Ridley,
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, (New York: Perennial, 2000).

Genome Gateway, Nature Magazine, http://www.nature.com/genomics/

Genomics and its Impact on Medicine and Society: A 2001 Primer, http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/primer2001/

Hypertextbook: Mendelian Genetics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, http://esg-www.mit.edu:8001/esgbio/mg/mgdir.html

Office of Science Education and Outreach, National Human Genome Research Institute, http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/DIR/VIP/Learing_Tools/genetic_illustrations.html

Edward Smith and Walter Sapp, editors, Plain Talk about the Human Genome Project: A Tuskegee University Conference on Its Promise and Perils…and Matters of Race, (Tuskegee: Tuskegee University, 1997).

The Human Genome Project: Exploring Our Molecular Selves, National Human Genome Research Institute, http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/eductionkit/

U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Program, http://www.ornl.gov/ghmis

 

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