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Family Reunion
I. Scenario and Introduction
II. Cancer and Regulation of Cell Growth and Division
A. What is cancer?III. Information Flow
B. What regulates growth and cell division (mitosis)?
A. What is DNA and how does it store information?IV. Mendelian Genetics/Inheritance
B. How is DNA used to make proteins?1. TranscriptionC. How is DNA organized?
2. Translation
A. How much genetic information is enough?V. Sexual Reproduction: What's So Great about Sex?
B. Genotype and phenotype
A. Introduction: What promotes genetic diversity?VI. Probability of Inheritance
B. Meiosis
C. Genetic diversity in plants and prokaryotes
A. Cystic fibrosisVII. Biotechnology
B. Incomplete dominance
C. Codominance
D. X-linked inheritance
A. Genetic testing
B. Agricultural applications
C. Engineered microbes
D. DNA fingerprinting
E. PCR