UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN BOTANY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)
SYLLABUS

Semester V - Paper VII - Genetics and Biostatistics

Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Lecture 4 Hrs; Practicals 2 Hrs. per week

Theory

Unit - I

Concepts of Merdelian genetics - interaction of genes - complementary, epistasis and polygemc inheritance.

Unit - II

Linkage - crossing over and recombination - gene mapping - chromosome theory of inheritance.

Unit - III

Sex determination in plants - sex linked inheritance and associated diseases - Haemophilia and Colour blindness.

Unit - IV

Gene concept - exon, intron, cistron, recon, muton, gene regulation, LAC OPERON

Biostatistics

Unit - V

Mean, median and mode standard deviation - standard error - chi - square test Basic principle of probability - application of statistics to genetics

Practical

1. Simple problems on dihybridratio and interaction of factors.
2. Construction of chromosome maps using 3 point test cross data.
3. Simple problems on the applications of Clii square method Submission of record.

Reference Books

1. Levin R.P 1962, Genetics Reinhart and Winston.
2. Mitra S 1994, Genetics, A Blue Print of Life Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi.
3. Strickberger M.W 1990, Genetics III Education Mcmillan Publishing Ltd Singpore.
4. Sundararaj DD and G.Thulsids 1967,, Introducaiton to Cytogenetics and Plant Breedings, Popular book Report, Chennai.
5. Rangaswami R.A 1995, A Text Book of Agricultural Statistics. New Age International Publications.
6. Winter P.C, G.I. Hickey and H.L.Fletcher 1999, Instant Notes in Genetics, Viva Books Ltd, Chennai.
7. Sinha and Sunitha Sinha 1985, Cytogenetics, Plant Breeding and Evolution, Vani Educational Books.