Field of studyGeneral and Molecular Genetics

At present, modern genetics is a combination of three original branches: classical genetics, molecular genetics, and population genetics. On one hand it studies the mechanisms of hereditary traits themselves, and at the same time using this knowledge to investigate the basic biological processes and phenomena. Doctoral studies in the field of genetics at the FS MU are generally focused on the study of the genomes of eukaryotes in relation to the normal and pathological function of its genes. These studies include both plants and animals, including man. Plant studies are aimed especially at molecular genetic analysis of genes (including alien genes), and study of their occurrence in model plants and crops (Arabidopsis thaliana, Nicotiana tabacum, Silene sp., Hordeum aj.). Research on animals is generally directed toward genetic structure of populations, and especially with human populations on molecular diagnostics of pre-natal and post-natal pathological conditions, by cytogenic methods, and for detection of genetic factors associated with some polygenetically-based