HISTORY OF MODERN MEDICAL GENETICS Flashcards
LECTURE 1 CHECK ON LEARNING
1
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On the Origin of Species
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Darwin
2
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Nature of Inheritance
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Gregor Mendel
3
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Classical Experimental Genetics
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
4
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Discovered that genes are mobile, like Transposons
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Barbara McClintock
5
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Structural conformation that DNA contained the genetic information not the proteins for the basis of genetics
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James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin
6
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DNA analytic methods
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Sir Ed Southern
7
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Kary Mullis
8
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using EST sequencing (cloned fragments of cDNA) to accelerate finding genes and charactering function
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Human genome project by Craig Ventor
9
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Director of NIH Human Genome Project Announced
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Francis Collins
10
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controlled gene knockdown
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Morpholino Oligonucleotides
11
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Cas9 system used for gene knockout
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Yoshizumi Ishino- CRISPR
