Genetics: For Medical Entrance Examinations

GENERAL FEATURES OF GENES AND CHROMOSOMES

General features of genetics

General features of chromosomes

Barr body

Genes

Aneuploidy

Chromosomes

CYTOGENETICS AND DNA RECOMBINANT TECHNOLOGY

General features of cytogenetic studies

Polymerase chain reaction

Restriction fragment length polymorphism

DNA fingerprinting

Fluorescence and luminence

Karyotyping

Blotting

Hybridoma technology

Genetic studies

Chromosomal studies

Transgenic animals

Gene incorporation

Recombinant technology

Gene therapy

MODE OF INHERITANCE OF DISEASES

Inheritance of diseases

Features of inheritance

Mitochondrial inheritance

GENETIC DISORDERS

General features of genetic disorders

Rearrangement of transcription factors

Down’s syndrome

Trisomy 13

Trisomy 18

Trisomy 22

Turner syndrome

Klinefelter syndrome

Noonan syndrome

Disorders of DNA repair mechanism