Lec 8 MIT 7.012 Introduction to Biology, Fall 2004
Let's dive in today and look at how geneticists use genetics. I've told you up until now about some of the history of genetics and how it gave rise to our understandings about genetic transmission in traits, about genetic mapping, linkage analysis, how all this helped confirm the Chromosomes Theory. And we wove in a number of concepts about how scientific theories are developed and data is interpreted and intuitions are made, and then how they're actually proven, what sort of evidence it takes to actually achieve conscientious around theories. And that often takes sometimes years, many times decades before full contentious is achieved around things. Today I want to turn a little bit to the experimental uses of genetics in a more day-to-day fashion. And you will recall this coat of arms that I put up here. Function. Gene. Protein. Biochemistry. Genetics. And I told you about how these were two different ways to stu...