Course: Genetics

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Course title Genetics
Course code ULZ/BGENT
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Riegert Bystřická Dagmar, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Lectures: Block A: Classical genetics with elaboration of basic methods of hybrid analysis. 1. Genetic laws, methods and objects. 2. Hybridological analysis. Pedigree analysis. Block B: Cytogenetics, heredity and variability at the cell level. 3. Organization of genetic information at the cell level. 4. Karyology. 5. Analysis of karyotypes - laboratory work. Block C: Molecular genetics - heredity and variability at the molecular level. 6. Nucleic acids, their structure and importance, genetic code. Processes of realization of genetic information at the molecule level. 7. Molecular genetic methods of genome analysis. Excursion to the laboratory of molecular genetics. Block D: Clinical genetics. 8. Genetic pathological conditions and their classification. 9. Mutagenesis, rakogenesis and teratogenesis, changes of genome and environment. 10. Prevention of genetic pathological conditions Genetics and ethics.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Learning outcomes
- To gain basic knowledge of genetics from the theoretical point of view. - To gain basic knowledge of genetics in terms of its practical application. - To understand the genetic determination of genetic terms. - The knowledge of prevention, genetic counseling, its possibilities and organization in the Czech Republic.
- The student has basic knowledge of genetics from the theoretical point of view. - The student has basic knowledge of genetics in terms of its practical application. - The student understands the genetic determination of genetic therms.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite subjects: 0
UFM/BAFZ1

Assessment methods and criteria
Colloquium, Test

Oral. Elaboration of seminar work solving a specific task in the field of clinical genetics and prognosis and its presentation. Attendance.
Recommended literature
  • Čítek, Jindřich; Řehout, Václav,; Hosnedlová, Božena; Hanusová, Lenka; Večerek, Libor,; Míková, Andrea; Jašková, Iva; Ochman, Martin. Cvičení z genetiky. 1. vydání. České Budějovice : Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zemědělská fakulta, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7394-296-0.
  • Kočárek, Eduard; Maget, Jan. Genetika : obecná genetika a cytogenetika, molekulární biologie, biotechnologie, genomika. 2. vydání. Praha : Scientia, 2008. ISBN 978-80-86960-36-4.
  • Nussbaum, Robert L.; McInnes, Roderick R.; Willard, Huntington F.; Thompson, Margaret Wilson,; Thompson, James S.; Goetz, Petr. Klinická genetika : Thompson & Thompson : 6. vyd.. 6. vyd. Praha : Triton, 2004. ISBN 80-7254-475-6.
  • Řehout, Václav; Čítek, Jindřich,; Hradecká, Eva. Genetika II. 1. vydání. České Budějovice : Jihočeská univezita, Zemědělská fakulta, 2005. ISBN 80-7040-774-3.
  • Řehout, Václav; Čítek, Jindřich,; Sáková, Lenka. Genetika I. : (úvod do studia genetiky). 1. vydání. České Budějovice : Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zemědělská fakulta, 2000. ISBN 80-7040-405-1.
  • Snustad, D. Peter; Simmons, Michael J. Genetics. 6th ed., international student version. Hoboken : Wiley, 2012. ISBN 978-1-118-09242-2.


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