Essential Genetiics to help instructors meet these challenges. It is designed for the shorter, less comprehensive introductory course. The brevity of the text fits the pace of what can be covered in a typical one-semester or one-quarter course. The topics have been carefully chosen to help students achieve the following learning objectives:

- Understand the basic processes of gene transmission,
   mutation, expression, and regulation
- Learn to formulate genetic hypotheses, work out their
   consequences, and test the results against observed data
- Develop basic skills in problem solving, including single-concept
   exercises, those requiring the application of several concepts in logical order, and numerical problems requiring some arithmetic for solution Gain some sense of the social and historical context in which genetics has developed as well as an appreciation of current trends
- Become aware of some of the genetic resources and information that are avilable through the World Wide Web.

1. The Genetic Code of Genes and Genomes
2. Transmission Genetics: Heritage from Mendel
3. The Chromosomal Basis of Heredity
4. Gene Linkage and Genetic Mapping
5. Human Chromosomes and Chromosome Behavior
6. DNA Structure, Replication, and Mainipulation
7. The Genetics of Bacteria and Their Viruses
8. The Molecular Genetics of Gene Expression
9. Molecular Mechanisms of Gane Regulation
10. Genomics, Proteomics, and Genetic Engineering
,etc.