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Genetics captures our imagination as a society because it seeks to answer “Who are we?” and “Where did we come from?”. Advances in genetics promise to heal, prevent, and eliminate diseases; to feed the world; to solve crimes; to resurrect long extinct animals; and even to synthesize new life from biochemical building blocks. An understanding of the basic principles of genetics will help you to determine whether these and other promises are feasible. An exploration of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of these advances will allow you to make principled decisions as a professional, voter, consumer and citizen.
In this course we will explore several key principles of genetics including: the structure and function of genes and genomes, simple and complex patterns of inheritance, how genetic change creates the spectacular diversity of life on earth, the role of the environment on the outcome of heritable traits, and various ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics.
Handout: [
http://wikiedu.org/editingwikipedia Editing Wikipedia
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Resources:
Evaluating Wikipedia, [
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Using_talk_pages.pdf Using Talk Pages
]
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contactwikiedu.org |
This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
Genetics captures our imagination as a society because it seeks to answer “Who are we?” and “Where did we come from?”. Advances in genetics promise to heal, prevent, and eliminate diseases; to feed the world; to solve crimes; to resurrect long extinct animals; and even to synthesize new life from biochemical building blocks. An understanding of the basic principles of genetics will help you to determine whether these and other promises are feasible. An exploration of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of these advances will allow you to make principled decisions as a professional, voter, consumer and citizen.
In this course we will explore several key principles of genetics including: the structure and function of genes and genomes, simple and complex patterns of inheritance, how genetic change creates the spectacular diversity of life on earth, the role of the environment on the outcome of heritable traits, and various ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics.
Handout: [
http://wikiedu.org/editingwikipedia Editing Wikipedia
]
Resources:
Evaluating Wikipedia, [
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Using_talk_pages.pdf Using Talk Pages
]