This eBook includes some of our key pieces that examine prokaryotic genetics and the important concepts we can learn by studying these organisms. Citation: Intro to Microbial Genetics. Cambridge, MA: ...

Basic concepts in quantitative genetics, including Mendelian genetics, gene action (additive, dominant, recessive), heritability, liability threshold model, means, variances, structure of DNA, types ...

Inheritance is the passing of traits from parents to offspring. Our modern understanding of inheritance comes from a set of principles proposed by Austrian monk and researcher Gregor Mendel in 1865.

Various terms that describe genetic relatedness are introduced. The role of recombination in genetic variation and linkage disequilibrium is described. The concepts of identity-by-state and ...

A genome-wide association study is what the National Institutes of Health call "a study of common genetic variation across the whole human genome with the goal of finding genetic links to observable ...