The contents of this course majorly discuss on the genetic properties and functions of bacteria and bacteiophages. The topics of lecture are as follow:
1. the tools of bacterial genetics
2. mechanism of mutation in DNA
3. informational suppression
4. gene fusion in bacteria
5. insertion sequences
6. bacterial transposons
7. bacteriophage and its use as a genetic tool
8. site specific recombination
9. plasmids
10. generalized transduction
11. the molecular and enzymatic basic of homologous recombination
12. control of gene expression in bacteria.