Principles of Inheritance and Variation

This topic covers concepts such as Phenotype, Genotype, Gene Locus, Genetic Trait, Homozygous Trait, Heterozygous Trait, Back Cross, Test Cross, Dominant Trait, Recessive Trait, Gene, Alleles and Trihybrid Cross.

This topic covers concepts such as Pre-Mendelian Concepts of Heredity, Mendel's Experiment and Mendel's Laws of Inheritance.

This topic covers concepts such as Deviation from Mendelism, Incomplete Dominance, Codominance, Complementary Genes, Supplementary Genes, Dominant Epistasis, Pleiotropy, Polygenic Inheritance, Polyploidy, Cytoplasmic Inheritance, etc.

This topic covers the concept of Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance.

This topic covers concepts such as Linkage, Linkage Groups, Mechanism of Linkage, Crossing Over and Linkage Maps.

This topic covers concepts such as Sex Determination in Animals, Allosomes, Autosomes, Homogametes, Heterogametes, XX-XY Type of Sex Determination, XX- X0 Type of Sex Determination, Sex Determination in Honey Bee, etc.

This topic covers concepts such as Mutation, Mutation on the Basis of Occurrence, Induced Mutation, Spontaneous Mutation, Silent Mutation, Variations in Chromosome Number, Transition, Euploidy, Transversion, Missense Mutation, Nonsense Mutation, etc.

This topic covers concepts such as Sex-limited Traits, Sex-influenced Traits, Metafemales, Sex differentiating Traits and Holandric Inheritance.

This topic covers concepts such as Sex Linked Inheritance, Genetic Disorders, Pedigree Analysis, Mendelian Disorders, Haemophilia, Colour Blindness, Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle-cell Anaemia, Phenylketonuria, Autosomal Dominant Disorders, etc.

This topic covers the concept of Applications of Pedigree Analysis.

This topic covers concepts such as Chromosomal Disorders, Down’s Syndrome, Klinefelter’s Syndrome, Turner’s Syndrome, Patau Syndrome and Chromosomal Aberrations in Human.