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Class Schedule - 2007

Date Topic Chapter Reading
Aug 25 Class Introduction; Discussion: What does genetics mean to you?  
Aug 27 The Science of Genetics 1:all
Sept 1,3,8,10 Mendelian Genetics 2:all
3:all
Sept 15,17,22 Genetic Linkage 5:123-142
Sept 24,29 Maternal Inheritance 16:581-593
Oct 6,8,13 Quantitative Genetics

21:773-782
11:419-423

Oct 15,20 Population and Evolutionary Genetics 21:757-762
Oct 22 Exam 1  
Oct 27,29 Genes and Mutations 7:207-226
8:285-292
Nov 3 Transposable Elements 14:508-514
Nov 5,10 Cloning and Molecular Analysis of Genes 9:all
Nov 12,17 Molecular Genetic Analysis 10:351-359
11:391-408
Nov 19,24 Genomic Analysis 10:359-383
11:408-410
Nov 26 Thanksgiving; no class  
Dec 1,3 Prokaryotic Gene Expression 17:609-628
Dec 8,10 Control of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes 18:643-653
19:All
Dec 17 Exam 2 (8:00 am - 10:0 am)