This textbook helps you to prepare for both your next exams and practical courses by combining theory with virtual lab simulations. With the "Labster Virtual Lab Experiments" book series you have the unique opportunity to apply your newly acquired knowledge in an interactive learning game that simulates common laboratory experiments. Try out different techniques and work with machines that you otherwise wouldn't have access to. In this volume on "Basic Genetics" you will learn how to work in a laboratory with genetic background and the fundamental theoretical concepts of the following topics: Mendelian Inheritance, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Animal Genetics, Gene Expression, and Gene Regulation.