Key Topics
Video Viewpoints 1
Dominant inheritance, Ethical and social issues of embryo screening (preimplantation genetic diagnosis) and prenatal diagnosis (amniocentesis), Down Syndrome.
Video Viewpoints 2
Dominant and recessive alleles, inherited blood disorders, sickle-cell disease, thalassaemia, cystic fibrosis, gene therapy, Huntingdon's Chorea, Down, Edward and Patau Syndromes, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, cancer genetics, Human Genome Project, promoters and enhancers, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
Mitosis and Meiosis
Cell Cycle, Mitosis, Chromosomes, Genes, Homozygous, Heterozygous, Homologous Chromosomes, Meiosis, Genetic Variation, Sexual Reproduction, Gametogenesis.
Comparison of Normal & Abnormal Cell Division
Mitosis, Meiosis, Non-disjunction in mitosis and meiosis, Trisomy (a cause of Down Syndrome)
Virtual Cytogenetics Laboratory
Ethical and social issues of prenatal diagnosis, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), DNA replication, chromosome analysis.
Chromosome Challenge
Homologous Chromosomes, Karyotype, Sex Chromosomes.