We hope the course will help you forge links between different areas, will reinforce your knowledge of biochemistry, cell biology, prokaryotic genetics and evolution, as well as setting foundations for later courses that you may take, including Developmental Biology, The Human Genome, Plant Genetics, Molecular Genetics, and Genes and Development. Genomic structure and the dynamics and constraints of its change define the processes and rates of evolution . Eukaryotic genetic systems provide stable, yet changeable, inheritance of organismic characters through familial and phyletic lineages. This may be a fundamental event like the co-ordination of eukaryotic cell division or a particular issue like phototactic behaviour in an insect. Detection of human genetic disease and many biotechnological applications depend upon genetics.
Conflicts emerge between human rights and the use of knowledge of animal and plant genomes.
Dr. Jane Davies, a member of the Biology Subject group in the School of Biological Sciences .