BOTN 429 — Population and Biometrical Genetics
Plant and Environmental Biology · University of Ghana
History of population genetics. Hardy-weinberg law and its use, including cases of sex linkage and multiple alleles. Coefficient of inbreeding. Inbreeding: Mutation, Selection, Equilibria, Evolution of dominance. Polymorphism and balanced polymorphism. Chromosome frequencies and recombination, Polymorphism and multiple alleles. Alternative theories to natural selection. History of biometrical genetics. Genotype-environment interaction. Scaling. Components of means: additive and dominant effects; interaction and heterosis. Components of variation. Interaction, Linkage. Randomly breeding populations. Dialleles, special races: sex linkage, maternal effects, haploide, polyploids. Number of effective factors. Concepts of biometrical genetics. Artificial selection experiments, and responses to selection.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- BIOL 201 — Introductory Plant Morphology
- BIOL 315 — Principles of Genetics
- BIOL 318 — Aquatic Biology
- BOTN 325 — Bacteria and Viruses
- BOTN 400 — Project Work
- BOTN 410 — Language for Scientists II
- BOTN 411 — Fungi and Lichens
- BOTN 413 — Cell Ultra Structure and Function
- BOTN 414 — Economic Botany
- BOTN 417 — Microbiology
- BOTN 418 — Plant Pathology
- BOTN 419 — Advanced Plant Taxonomy
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).