MOLECULAR GENETICS OF DOGS AND CATS

Genetics is one of the foundations of general biological education. The subject of this scientific discipline is heredity and variability - the most common properties of living organisms. The conceptual nature of genetics allows us to consider it an exact science along with mathematics, physics and chemistry. Thus, by linking biology with other natural science disciplines, genetics makes it possible to form students' scientific thinking based on analysis and synthesis. Mastering the logic of genetic analysis contributes to the development of the discipline of scientific thinking. The applied value of genetics in medicine, biotechnology and agriculture is rapidly growing, which urgently requires a qualitative increase in the level of genetic education in higher and secondary schools.
Teaching biological disciplines in higher education implies familiarity with the modern conceptual apparatus, printed sources and electronic databases on the molecular organization of nucleic acids and proteins. Genomics, along with systems biology, transcriptomics, and proteomics, is one of the most rapidly developing areas of biology. A huge array of accumulated data requires regular systematization and generalization in the form of books and review articles.