Cytogenetics I - Karyotyping

Specific Knowledge Objectives
Students should understand:

• What genes are, how they are organized and controlled, what they do and how they segregate;
• Common molecular and cytogenetic diagnostic techniques and how they are applied to genetic disorders;
• Basic terminology and features of the normal human karyotype.

READING ASSIGNMENT: T & T, Chap. 2, pp 13-30.

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