Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Lecture, chapter 10 - From proteins to phenotypes

Today we covered chapter 10, on how proteins can affect the phenotype of an individual, specially in humans.

We discussed effects that mutations could have in the phenotype when they alter enzymes, transport proteins, and receptor proteins. Then we discussed the effects of genotypes on how an individual reacts to chemicals, which is the scope of pharmacogenetics, and how an individual reacts to chemicals in the environment, the scope of ecogenetics.

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