GENE3714
GENOMICS
Chapter 1 – Introduction and Background
LEARNING GOALS
Recognize the contributions to any individual’s phenotype
Appreciate the diversity of genome organization
Know the basic central dogma
DNA makes RNA makes protein
Understand the importance of comparative genome sequencing projects
Appreciate the large number of genome projects treating different
species
Appreciate that eukaryotic genomes contain extensive repetitive regions
of several different kinds
Recognize that diseases have variable genetic components
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