Course units:
4
ECTS units
6
Hours per week
Theory: 4 Training: 1
Instructors
Professor: Delidakis Christos
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Office phone number: +30 2810 391112
Lab phone number: +30 2810 391142
Office phone number: +30 2810 391112
Lab phone number: +30 2810 391142
Description
Course contents: General genetics: introduction; Mendelian analysis; chromosomal theory of inheritance; extension of Mendelian analysis; linkage; genomics; chromosomal aberrations: structural differences; chromosomal aberrations: differences in chromosome number; DNA structure; the nature of the gene; DNA function; gene mutations; extranuclear genomes (mitochondria/chloroplasts); bacterial and phage genetics: conjugation; transduction; transformation; recombinant DNA technology (vectors, restriction enzymes – DNA mapping, cloning, selection, library construction, DNA sequencing), control of gene expression I (prokaryotes, lac operon, positive and negative control).