Department of Animal Science - Basic Animal Genetics

• Introduction
  • How to use this site
  • Acknowledgements
  • Genetics Timeline
  • Mendelian Genetics
• Basic Concepts
  • Anatomy of a cell
  • Somatic vs. Gametic
  • Growth & division
  • Mitosis
  • Meiosis
  • Crossing Over
  • Basic DNA Structure
• DNA & RNA
  • Genetic Information
  • Anatomy of a Gene
  • DNA Replication
  • Transcription & Translation
  • Introns & Exons
  • Codons, anticodons
  • Genotype & Phenotype
• Simple Inheritance
  • Dominant/recessive
  • Segregation
  • Independent Assortment
  • Punnett squares
  • Sex-linked
• Probability
  • Probability
• Modify Mendelian Ratios
  • Incomplete dominance
  • Co-dominance
  • Multiple alleles
  • Lethal alleles
  • Epistasis
  • Genomic imprinting
• Linkage & Chromosome Mapping
  • Linkage vs. Independent Assortment
  • Incomplete linkage, crossing over
• Extra nuclear inheritance
  • Mitochondrial DNA
• Mutations
  • About Mutations
  • Point Mutation
  • Deletion
  • Addition
  • Duplication
  • Inversion
  • Translocation
  • Nondisjunction
  • Aneuploidy
  • Polyploidy
• Sex determination
  • Normal
  • Klinefelter syndrome
  • Turner syndrome
  • X chromosome & female development
  • Y chromosome & male development
• DNA chemistry
  • Chemistry
  • Replication & Synthesis
• RNA chemistry
  • Structure & Function
  • Regulation of gene expression
  • Protein chemistry
  • More on mutations
  • Genetics of complex traits
• BioEngineering Techniques
  • Recombinant DNA
  • PCR DNA cloning
  • Electrophoresis
• BioEngineering Applications
  • Mapping Genes
  • Diagnosis & screening genetic diseases
  • Gene Therapy
  • DNA Fingerprinting
  • Genome Projects
  • Cloning of Organisms
  • Transgenics
  • Evolutionary Study
• Coat color chemistry
  • Eumelanin
  • Eumelpigfin
  • Phaeomelanin
  • Phaeomelpigfin
  • Agouti hair
  • Punnett Square

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

This project was made possible through a grant from USDA, CSREES, Higher Education Challenge Grants Program and the support provided by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University.

AUTHORS:
• Dr. Pascal Oltenacu
• Dr. Tammy Tobin-Janzen
• Dr. John Pollak
• David Way (Director, Instructional Support Center for Learning and Teaching, Cornell University)
• Former students from Dept. of Animal Science, Cornell University:
  • Andrea Deierlein
  • Jill Zager
  • Nyssa Levy

WEB DESIGN and PROGRAMMING:   Linda Poppleton (Programmer/Analyst, Dept. of Animal Science, Cornell University)

ANIMATIONS and ARTISTIC WORK:
• Yamini Raman (former student, Dept. of Computer Science, Cornell University)
• Linda Poppleton (Programmer/Analyst, Dept. of Animal Science, Cornell University)