Principles of Genetics

Heredity and the continuity of life; Heredity and environment; Mendel law of segregation;Segregation of genes and chromosomes; Simple mendelian traits in man; Mendel principle of independent assortment; The expression and interaction of genes; Multiple-factors inheritance; Allelism and pleitropism; Lethal genes, penetrance and expressivity; The nature-nurture problem in man: twin studies; Sex-linked inheritance; Linkage and crossing over; Genetic maps of chromosomes Chromosomes aberrations and cytological maps; Spontaneous mutation; Genes in population; Crossing, selfing, inbreeding and heterosis; Genetics of race formation; Genetics of species formation, Determination of sex; Varieties of sexual reproduction; Physiological genetics; The genic control of development; The elements of the genetic system; Organization of the genetic material; Statiscal inference in genetics.