Course: Practice in Genetics

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Course title Practice in Genetics
Course code KBB/OGCSB
Organizational form of instruction Exercise
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Zůvalová Iveta, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Šafářová Dana, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Methods used for specific and non-specific staining of chromosomes. Mitosis in root apexes of onion. Meiosis in anthers of chive. Polytene chromosomes in salivary glands of drosophila. Mendelian inheritance. Sex chromatin, X and Y chromosomes, Q-banding. Inheritance of blood groups, AB0 and Rh system. Drosophila melanogaster, model, inheritance somatic and gonosomal characters, non-mendelian inheritance. Human genetics, pedigree analysis, karyotype. Cloning, man and ethic controversy.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Laboratory Work
Learning outcomes
Practical introduction into different types of chromosomes, their behaving during cell cycle and mitotic and allotypic division, mendelism and methods of human genetics.
Student is able to (after attending the course): - Prepare basic microscopic cytogenetic slides of tissues and cells stained by specific and non-specific DNA stains. - Characterise the structure of chromosomes, their behaviour during the cell cycle. - Explain principles of mitotic and meiotic division and their significance in GI transfer. - Apply basic laboratory techniques in sex determination in humans. - Evaluate the basic genealogical pedigrees. - Perform simple manipulations with elementary genetic model Drosophila melanogaster.
Prerequisites
unspecified
KBB/BZP

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Didactic Test

attendance, protocols´ elaboration, 70% test
Recommended literature
  • Snustad D.P., Simmons M.J. (2009). Genetika. Brno.
  • Šafářová D. (2011). Kapitoly z obecné genetiky. Olomouc.
  • Šafářová D., Uvírová L., Válová P. Cvičení z obecné genetiky. Olomouc.


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