2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

BIOL 265 - Population Genetics


This course will focus on understanding how evolutionary forces affect population diversity from a genetic perspective. We will explore how to differentiate between selection and genetic drift, learn to calculate rates of genetic diversity between and across populations and study the variation in populations as driven by time by studying examples from primary and secondary literature.

Prerequisites: BIOL 105  and BIOL 118  

Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall, Bi-annually