Fundamentals of Genetics (PB)

Author: Veer Bala Rastogi & Nirvika Rastogi
Publisher: Med Tech Science Press
Language: English
Edition: Latest
Year of Print: 2022
Binding: Paperback
Print Length: 796 Pages
ISBN: 9788195237289
About the Book

The text in this book is divided into six parts. Part I: Transmission Genetics Covers the basics of heredity and introduction to Genetics. Chapter 1 covers the derivation of the term 'Genetics', its historical background, the various sub-fields of Genetics, their practical applications and relations to the other branches of sciences be it human health, populations statistics or economics. Chapter 2 covers Mendel's experiments and consequently the Mendel's laws of Inheritance. Chapter 3 presents applications of mathematical expressions to derive results from various breeding experiments in the light of Mendel's laws. Chapter 4 provides an opportunity to the students for practicing the numerical problems based on Mendel's laws, a unique feature of this book. Part II: Extension and Application of Mendelian Genetics Focuses on modifications of Mendel's basic laws and explores the reasoning behind these variations. It covers interallelic gene interactions, polygenic inheritance, inheritance of multiple alleles, blood groups and interactions between genes and environment. This part also explains linkage, crossing over and recombination and chromosome maps. Chapters on sex determination, sex linkage and cytoplasmic inheritance are thereby covered in great depth. Part III: Human Genetics Deals with the identification and inheritance of hereditary characters in human populations, improvements in human population genetics, advancement in the human genome project, all under the notion of utilising genetics for the elevation of the human race. Part IV: Microbial Genetics Investigates principles of genetics where the subjects are viruses, bacteria and Neurospora. Within the sphere of microbial genetics, the chapters also reveal information on how mutants are isolated and how the positions of their mutations are mapped on their chromosomes. Part V: Physical and Chemical Basis of Heredity Includes cell division, mitosis, meiosis and gametogenesis.