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at my school gen chem and precalculus are prereqs for genetics. im taking it next sem and dont know what to expect. so what does it involve?
tae1703 said:at my school gen chem and precalculus are prereqs for genetics. im taking it next sem and dont know what to expect. so what does it involve?
interesting avatarSundarban1 said:Punnett squares...
UCLAstudent said:I took it a year ago. Stoic is correct: the first half of the class was Mendelian genetics (recombination, population genetics, sex-linked traits, etc.). The second half emphasized the molecular aspect of genetics (bacterial genetics, transposons, etc.).
Human Genetics (156) at UCLA is a great class....when I took it, Merriam and Lusis were teaching
I'm really excited about a human genetics class that I am taking next quarter!
UCLAstudent said:I took it a year ago. Stoic is correct: the first half of the class was Mendelian genetics (recombination, population genetics, sex-linked traits, etc.). The second half emphasized the molecular aspect of genetics (bacterial genetics, transposons, etc.).
I'm really excited about a human genetics class that I am taking next quarter!
tae1703 said:at my school gen chem and precalculus are prereqs for genetics. im taking it next sem and dont know what to expect. so what does it involve?
stoic said:oh yea, also... in regards to the prereqs, i'd guess that precalc is so you've had enough math to do the probability calculations. as for gen chem... i have no idea. i don't really know what in genetics has much to do with gen chem. there's a little bit of organic related material in molecular genetics (and i do mean only a bit), but not really any gen chem. maybe they want it so you've had even more math practice... who knows.
MedicineBird said:i think you'll have an easier time of it if you've already taken stats
cfdavid said:Another thing to keep in mind is how many advances in different kinds of gene therapies we'll see, and hopefully be able to implement as docs, in our lifetime. I'd say it's a very applicable class. Looking forward to taking it myself.
stoic said:gene therapy (at least at any indepth level) is a topic for pharmacuetical chemsitry classes, not intro genetics