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BIOL 380 - Genetic Analysis of Populations

Course Career Undergraduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 3-1S-0
Fee index 6
Faculty Science
Department Biological Sciences
Typically Offered second term

Description
Application of molecular biology to the study of systematics, structure of natural populations, mating systems, and forensics. Among the topics discussed are molecular techniques used to detect genetic variation in natural populations, methods to construct phylogenies using molecular data, mathematical models of population structure, paternity analysis, and DNA fingerprinting. Prerequisite: BIOL 207. BIOL 221 recommended.