Application of the principles of heredity: JAMB Biology Past Questions and Answers

What the JAMB syllabus covers in Application of the principles of heredity

Our summary: Using genetics in breeding, marriage counselling and medicine, and the debates around GMOs and gene therapy.

• Agriculture
• Medicine

Objectives

• analyze data on cross-breeding experiments.
• apply the principles of heredity in the production of new varieties of crops and livestock through cross-breeding.
• deduce advantages and disadvantages of out-breeding and in-breeding.
• analyze elementarily the contentious issues of genetically modified organisms (GMO) and gene therapy and biosafety.
• apply the knowledge of heredity in marriage counselling with particular reference to blood grouping, sickle-cell anaemia and the Rhesus factors.
• describe the significance of using recombinant DNA materials in the production of important medical products such as insulin, interferon and enzymes.

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