Download Biology 230 Genetics, Spring semester 2005

Biology 230 Genetics, Winter Semester 2012
Place and time: Science Building Lecture Hall, Tues, Wed & Fri 10.30-11.20 a.m.
Course coordinator and lecturer: Dr. Francis Choy, Cunningham Building Room 062,
tel. 721-7107, email: [email protected].
Lecturer: Dr. John Taylor, Petch Building Rm 011, tel. 472-4079, email: [email protected]
Senior Lab Instructor: Ms. Dawna Brand, Cunningham Rm. 110, Tel.721-7096, email: [email protected]
Textbook: Genetics Analysis and Principles by Brooker, 4th (2012) edition, McGraw Hill Publisher.
Since the pre- and/or co-requisites for Biol. 230 are Biol. 225 Cell Biology/Biochemistry 299, students are
expected to have fundamental knowledge of DNA structure & function, transcription & translation, amino
acids, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids.
Method of grade assignment: Laboratory: 30%; lectures: 70%
Lecture component - 1st and 2nd midterm examination 15% each; final lecture examination, 40%.
Students must pass both the lecture & lab exams by scoring at least an overall 50% in both
components, in order to pass the course.
Grades:
A+
90100%
A
8589.9%
A-
B+
8084.9%
7579.9%
B
7074.9%
B-
C+
6569.9%
6064.9%
C
5559.9%
D
5054.9%
F
049.9%
There is NO E grade assigned and subsequently no supplementary exam.
Tentative lectures schedule
Dr. Choy will cover the eukaryotic cell cycle, mitosis, meiosis, Mendelian genetics and extension,
pedigree analysis, non-Mendelian inheritance, cytogenetics, quantitative genetics, biochemical genetics,
the Lyon’s hypothesis, & molecular basis of mutations
Jan 4, Introduction, chromosomes, and the cell cycle, Ch.1 (general reading), Ch.3, p.44-50
Jan 6 and 10, Reproduction and chromosome transmission, mitosis and meiosis, Ch.3, p.50-63, 66-67
Jan 13, Mendelian inheritance, probability and statistics, Ch.2, p.17-39
Jan 17, 18, Extension of Mendelian inheritance, Ch.4, p.71-94
Jan 20, 24 Cytogenetics – chromosome structure and chromosome aberrations, Ch.8, p.189-215
Jan 25, Guest lecture, Dr. Michelle Steinraths, Medical Genetics
Jan. 27, Pedigree analysis and biochemical genetics
Jan 31, First mid-term examination
Feb 1, 3, Biochemical genetics II; non-Mendelian inheritance, epigenetics and the Lyon’s hypothesis
Ch.5, p.103-121
Feb 7 Quantitative genetics, Ch. 25, p. 700-721
Feb 8, 10 Gene mutation and repair, Ch. 16, p.424-453
Feb 13-17, Reading break
Dr. John Taylor's lectures begins on Feb 21 and his schedule will be posted on a separate BIOL 230
homepage
The 2nd mid-term is scheduled on March 6 2009 and will cover lectures from Feb 1 to March 2.