The UAB Undergraduate Program in Genetics and Genomic Sciences (GGS) is an interdisciplinary major between the Department of Genetics in the School of Medicine and the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences. Genetics refers to study of genes and their roles in inheritance, while genomics describes investigations of large sets of genes or gene products, up to and including the entire genome. Genetics is one of the most important fields in biological sciences, and affects all aspects of our lives.