Erciyes University - Info Package

Course unit title	Level of course unit	Course unit code	Type of course unit	Semester of course unit	Local credit	ECTS credit	Syllabus
HUMAN POPULATION GENETICS	Third cycle	GEN 504		1	6.00	6.00	Print

Description of course unit

Prerequisites and course requisities	Only postgraduate students are accepted for the course
Language of instruction	Turkish
Coordinator	Prof.Dr. Munis DUNDAR
Lecturer(s)	Prof.Dr. Munis DUNDAR
Teaching assitant(s)	Assistant Researcher
Mode of delivery	Teoric
Course objective	The objective of this course is to teach the student the human population genetics
Course description	Population genetics is the study of the distributions and changes of allele frequency in a population, as the population is subject to the evolutionary processes.

Course contents

1	Natural selection
2	Hardy–Weinberg principle
3	Genetic drift
4	Mutation, Evolution of mutation rate
5	Gene flow and transfer, Reproductive isolation, Genetic structure, Horizontal Gene Transfer
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Learning outcomes of the course unit

1	to learn natural selection
2	to learn Hardy–Weinberg principle
3	to learn genetic drift
4	to learn mutation, Evolution of mutation rate
5	to learn gene flow and transfer, Reproductive isolation, Genetic structure, Horizontal Gene Transfer
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Number of stars refer to level of contribution from 1 (the least) to 5 (the most)

Planned learning activities, teaching methods and ECTS work load

	Quantity	Time (hour)	Quantity*Time (hour)
Lectures (face to face teaching)	14	2	28
Study hours out of classroom (study before and after the class)	14	2	28
Homework	14	1	14
Presentation / seminar	14	2	28
Quiz	0	0	0
Preparation for midterm exams	14	1	14
Midterm exams	1	2	2
Project (term paper)	14	2	28
Laboratuar	0	0	0
Field study	0	0	0
Preparation for final exam	0	0	0
Final exam	1	2	2
Research	1	0	0
Total work load			144
ECTS			6.00

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation during semester	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm exam	1	20
Quiz	0	0
Homework	1	20
Semester total		40
Contribution ratio of evaluation during semester to success		40
Contribution ratio of final exam to success		60
General total		100

Recommended and required reading

Textbook	1- Postlethwalt, John (2009). Modern Biology. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. 317. 2-Hartl, Daniel (2007). Principles of Population Genetics. Sinauer Associates. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-87893-308-2. 3-William B. Provine (1978). "The role of mathematical population geneticists in the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s". Studies of the History of Biology 1: 167–192.
Additional references	Masel J (2011). "Genetic drift". Current Biology 21 (20): R837–R838. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.007. PMID 22032182.

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