Genomics is a rapidly growing field with a rich history and an exciting future. Take advantage of our ready-made teaching tools to present the foundations to your students and help them understand the impact of genomics in their lives. This year we planned to Introduced GENOMICS to level 2&3 biology students. we are collaborating with Dr Thierry lint who is PhD. in biology and specialised in genomics. He encouraged us to introduced genomics and let students familiar with this concept. In this way, students know about role of genomics and genes in the health of an individual and how diseases vary in different ethnicities. To introduced genomics in our school, we invited Dr Thierry into our classroom so that he can talk with students and answers students questions. This lesson was awesome. Students showed interest in genomics and very excited to work on it with their next internal standard AS91602.
Dr Thierry talked about Genomics as the study of whole genomes of organisms and incorporates elements from genetics. Genomics uses a combination of recombinant DNA, DNA sequencing methods, and bioinformatics to sequence, assemble, and analyse the structure and function of genomes. It differs from ‘classical genetics’ in that it considers an organism’s full complement of hereditary material, rather than one gene or one gene product at a time. Moreover, genomics focuses on interactions between loci and alleles within the genome and other interactions such as epistasis, pleiotropy and heterosis.
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