Living World

Genetics

• Blood group compatibility

• Heredity

• Chromosomes

• Alleles

• Characteristics (heritable)

• Homozygous and heterozygous

• Dominance and recessiveness

• Mendel's law

  • • Law of dominance

    • Law of segregation

    • Law of independent assortment

• Genetic crosses

  • • Autosomal inheritance

    • sex-linked inheritance

• Hereditary diseases

Molecular biology

• DNA

• Genome

• DNA replication

• Gene

• Protien synthesis

  • • Transcription

    • Translation

• Genetic code

• Mutation

Evolution

• Genetic diversity

• Biological evolution

• Gene pool

• Mechanism of microevolution

  • • Natural or artificial selection

    • Gene flow

    • Genetic drift

    • Random mating

    • mutation

• Adaptation

• Interventions modifying the genetics of a species

Technological World

Genetic engineering

• Genetic tranformation

  • • Genetically modified organisms (GMOs)

• Gene manipulation tools

• DNA sequencing

• Genetic engineering applications

  • • Cloning

    • Transgenesis

• Biology simulations from PhET

• More coming soon...