Table of Contents

1. Genetics: The Study of Biological Information2. Mendel’s Principles of Heredity
3. Extensions to Mendel’s Laws
4. The Chromosome Theory of Inheritance
5. Linkage, Recombination, and the Mapping of Genes on Chromosomes
6. DNA Structure, Replication, and Recombination
7. Anatomy and Function of a Gene: Dissection Through Mutation
8. Gene Expression: The Flow of Information from DNA to RNA to Protein
9. Digital Analysis of Genomes
10. Genome Annotation
11. Analyzing Genomic Variation
12. The Eukaryotic Chromosome
13.Chromosomal Rearrangements and Changes in Chromosome Number
14. Bacterial Genetics
15. Organellar Inheritance
16. Gene Regulation in Prokaryotes
17. Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes
18. Manipulating the Genomes of Eukaryotes
19. The Genetic Analysis of Development
20. The Genetics of Cancer
21. Variation and Selection in Populations
22. Genetics of Complex Traits

About the Author

Dr. Michael Goldberg is a professor at Cornell University, where he teaches introductorygenetics and human genetics. He was an undergraduate at Yale Universityand received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University. Dr. Goldberg performedpostdoctoral research at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel (Switzerland)and at Harvard University, and he received an NIH Fogarty Senior InternationalFellowship for study at Imperial College (England) and fellowships from theFondazione Cenci Bolognetti for sabbatical work at the University of Rome (Italy).His current research uses the tools of Drosophila genetics and the biochemical analysisof frog egg cell extracts to investigate the mechanisms that ensure proper cellcycle progression and chromosome segregation during mitosis and meiosis.



Dr. Janice Fischer is a Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where she is an award-winning teacher of genetics and Director of the Biology Instructional Office. She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University, and did postdoctoral research at The University of California at Berkeley and The Whitehead Institute at MIT. In her current research, Dr. Fischer uses Drosophila to examine the roles of ubiquitin and endocytosis in cell signaling during development.