BIOL 114 - DNA, Gene Technology, And You
Credits: 3
Description
This course is an introduction to genetics with emphasis on issues facing modern society. Topics covered include: the structure and function of DNA; the complexities of heredity; the purposes of cloning, genetic modification, and artificial selection; and the role of natural selection in the modification of population genetics. This course is intended to satisfy the general education requirement for a non-lab science.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Describe the structure and organization of DNA, including base pairing, genes, alleles, chromosomes, and genomes.
- Explain the process by which DNA is transcribed into RNA and translated into proteins, as well as some of the ways this process can be regulated.
- Identify different types of mutations, and discuss the role of specific mutations in various genetic diseases and phenotypic traits.
- Apply fundamental rules of inheritance, and discuss various complications to these fundamentals.
- Compare the history, processes, purposes, and ethics of therapeutic cloning, reproductive cloning, and the genetic modification of organisms.
- Compare the processes of artificial and natural selection, and describe the power these processes have to shape populations and species.
- Explain the process of evolution by natural selection, and the concepts of speciation and common ancestry.
Prerequisite: None
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