Genetics: Where to start

What is... genetics?

Genetics is the study of how, in all living things, the characteristics and qualities of parents are given to their children by their genes. The study of genetics has largely become the study of:

• the structure of genes and their transmission from one generation to the next;
• the mechanisms by which the expression of genes is regulated;
• the patterns of change that have occurred in the genetic composition of natural populations both at present and throughout the evolutionary time-scale.

See the websites of The Genetics Society and The British Society for Human Genetics (BSHG) for more information about genetics.

	Written by higher education careers professionals	Date:  November 2008
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