1. Introduction to Genetics
*What is genetics?
Brief History of Genetics
*Prehistoric Times: Domesticated Animals/Cultivated Plants (~1000 B.C.)

2. Brief History of Genetics
*The Greek Influence (~ B.C.)
Hippocrates – pangenesis
Aristotle – “vital heat”
*Pre-Mendelian Ideas ( )
Blending Inheritance
Epigenesis
Preformation
*Charles Darwin (1859)
Natural Selection
*Gregor Mendel (1866)
Particulate Inheritance

3. A review of the eukaryotic cell:
Elaborately compartmentalized systems
*Generalized animal cell
*Generalized plant cell

4. Chromosome duplication and distribution during cell division
Review of terms:
*Diploid and haploid
*Homologous chromosomes

5. The Mitotic Cell Cycle
*Mitotic phase vs. interphase
Subphases of interphase:
*G1 – first gap *S – synthesis *G2 – second gap

6. Mitosis
Late Interphase Prophase Prometaphase

7. Mitosis
Metaphase Anaphase Telophase
*cytokinesis

8. Cytokinesis:
Animal cells Plant cells

9. Mitosis: Animal Cell

10. Mitosis: Plant Cell

11. Sexual vs. Asexual reproduction
“budding”

12. Overview of meiosis:
Two consecutive cell divisions
*meiosis I *meiosis II
AKA: Reduction-Division

13. Meiosis I
Interphase Prophase I Metaphase I Anaphase I

15. Mitosis and Meiosis Compared: