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Università degli Studi di Parma
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UNIT
cod. 19382

Academic year 2008/09
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Genetica (BIO/18)
Field
Discipline biotecnologiche comuni
Type of training activity
Characterising
16 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
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Learning objectives

to provide the first year students with the basic experimental approach  to genetics

Prerequisites

<p>basic genetics </p>

Course unit content

 General regulatory systems.- Glucose repression in bacteria: physiological analysis and selection of mutants - Control of glucose repression in bacteria: cAMP and CAP- Glucose repression in yeast. Physiological analysis - Genetic control of glucose repression- Strategies to select glucose non-represseible and non-derepressible mutants- Genetic analysis of the selected mutants- Physiological analysis and determination of glucose uptake- Headie-Hofstee plot of the mutants: Identification of low and high affinity transporters- Reversion and suppression. - Search of suppressors to find out new genes. - Petite mutants in yeast. - Genetic and physiological analysis.

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