BIO 326 GENETICS, FALL 2002
LECTURE SCHEDULE AND NOTES
Week
Date
Topic
Reading
1
M 8/26
Introduction; Meiosis
1: 1-15
Start "Monk in the garden"
W 8/28
Meiosis; Mendelian Genetics
2: 21-41
F 8/30
Mendelian Genetics I: Ratios
3: 45-51
2
M 9/2
Labor Day-No class
 
W 9/4
Mendelian Genetics II: Probability
3: 51-60
F 9/6
Mendelian Genetics III: Statistics
3: 60-64
3
M 9/9
Mendelian Genetics IV: Pedigrees
3: 64-66;
4: 77-80
W 9/11
Modified Mendelian Ratios I
4: 80-87
F 9/13
Modified Mendelian Ratios II
4: 87-103;
Finish "Monk"
4
M 9/16
Conservation genetics
; Dr. Bradley Swanson
 
9/18
Review Session
 
Th, F
EXAM I in testing center
F 9/20
Discuss "Monk"; Linkage I
6: 137-144
5
M 9/23
Linkage II
6: 144-155
W 9/25
Linkage III
6: 155-165
F 9/27
Bacterial Genetics
;
Paper on "Monk" due
7: 177-194
6
M 9/30
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
8: 209-221
W 10/2
Sex determination
9: 227-245
F 10/4
Chromosome variation
10: 251-275
7
M 10/7
DNA, RNA I
11: 283-297
W 10/9
DNA RNA II
11: 297-313
F 10/11
DNA Replication and recombination
12: 321-342
8
M 10/14
The Genetic code
13: 349-360
W 10/16
Review Session
 
Th, F
EXAM II in testing center
F 10/18
Transcription
13: 360-374
9
M 10/21
Translation
14: 381-405
W 10/23
Regulation of gene expression: Prokaryotic
15:413-426
F 10/25
Regulation of gene expression: Eukaryotic
16: 433-449
10
M 10/28
Mutation
17: 455-477
W 10/30
DNA repair, transposable elements
17: 477-492
F 11/1
Recombinant DNA I
18:499-512
11
M 11/4
Recombinant DNA II
18: 512-524
W 11/6
Chromosome structure
19: 531-548
F 11/8
Genomic organization
20: 553-571
12
M 11/11
Behavioral genetics
24: 659-675
W 11/13
Review Session
 
Th, F
EXAM III in testing center
F 11/15
Recombinant DNA: applications and ethics
21: 577-599
13
M 11/18
Developmental genetics I
22:607-617
W 11/20
Developmental genetics II
22: 617-629
F 11/22
Genetics and Cancer I
23: 635-640
14
M 11/25
Genetics and Cancer II
23:640-652
W 11/27
Population Genetics I
25: 683-692
F 11/29
Thanksgiving recess-No class
 
15
M 12/2
Population Genetics II
25: 692-706
W 12/4
Quantitative genetics
5: 115-127
F 12/6
Genetics and evolution
26: 713-717, 725-733.
M 12/9
FINAL EXAM, 10-11:50am, Brooks 203.