Schedule for Introductory Plant Genetics CSS/Hort 430 Winter Quarter 2008

Date

Topic

Event

Readings
January 7

Genetics overview

Lecture

Chapter 1
9 Genetics overview Lecture  
11

Mendelian inheritance

Lecture

Chapter 2
14

Mendelian inheritance

Lecture Quiz 1

 
16

Mendelian inheritance

Lecture

 
18 Sex determination Lecture  
21 No Class MLK Holiday  
23 Meiosis and mitosis Lecture Quiz 2 Chapter 3
25

Meiosis and Linkage maps

Lecture

Chapter 4
28 Exam 1    
30

Making and using maps

Lecture

Chapter 4
February 1 Making and using maps Lecture Chapter 4
4 Genes to phenotypes

Lecture Quiz 3

Chapter 6
6

DNA: structure and replication

Lecture

Chapter 7
8 From DNA to molecular markers Lecture  
11

Molecular marker applications

Lecture Quiz 4

 
13 From DNA to RNA Lecture Chapters 8, 9
15

From RNA to protein

Lecture

Chapters 8, 9
18 RNA to protein and back to DNA

Lecture Quiz 5

Chapter 10
20

Gene isolation

Lecture

Chapter 11
22 Genomics

Lecture

Chapter 12
25  

Exam 2

 
27

Plant genetic engineering

Lecture

Chapter 11
29 Plant genetic engineering

Lecture

Chapter 11
March 3

Sexual reproduction

Lecture Quiz 6

 
5 Apomixis

Lecture

 
7

Transposable elements: genome evolution and applications

Lecture - hand out take-home Quiz 7

Chapter 13
10 Mutation

Lecture - turn in take-home Quiz 7

Chapter 14, 15
12 Haploids to polyploids

Lecture

 
14 Genetics and the organism

Lecture

 

Tuesday March 18
9:30 AM

 

Final Exam