Genetic Applications

Overview

What you will learn

The Genetic Applications course offered by Warnborough College would be ideal for professional development for anyone working in agriculture, crop production animal health, growing plants, human health, medicine and many other scientific applications to understand the latest developements in gene technology and how to applies it to your industry.

Course Aims

• Review the basics of Mendelian genetics. Explain several non-Mendelian inheritance patterns and how they affect inheritance in plants and animals.

• Explain the basic structure of DNA and mRNA and common methods laboratory methods.

• Explain modern genetic technologies used to investigate DNA.

• Explain more complex forms of genetic inheritance, including polygenic inheritance, gene conversion, infectious heredity, and epistasis and how they affect plants, and in some cases, human health.

• Explain the basic concepts of epigenetics and discuss applications for epigenetics.

• To explain genetic modification and highlight the methods by which this can be achieved.

• To discuss the ethical consideration of gene editing.

• To explain the use of genomics in crops.

• To explain the applications of genomics in animals.

• To explain the applications of genetic technologies in human health.