Inheritance of characters
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# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand that genes are the units of inheritance for individual characteristics and also may contribute to susceptibility to certain diseases
- understand the number of chromosomes that make up the human genome and where they are located within the cell
- understand something of the immense scale of the human genome project
- understand how gametes are produced by the process of meiosis and how the full complement of 46 chromosomes is restored at fertilisation
- understand the role of the X and Y chromosomes in determining sex and how they are inherited.
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