4.1 Chapter Objectives
Learning Objectives
This chapter provides a general overview of genetics, with the goal of introducing topics to be developed in future chapters. By the end of your reading and our in-class discussion, you should be able to:
- Define the following terms:
- genetics
- genes
- nucleic acid
- chromosome
- protein
- mutation
- genotype
- phenotype
- codon
- amino acid
- allele
- Justify, with an example, this statement: genotype and the environment combine to make phenotype.
- Explain the connection between gene, allele, chromosome, and DNA.
- Describe, in general, what DNA does.
- Explain the basic science of paternity testing.
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