Biology 251 Fall '01 Course Schedule

 

WEEKS	General Course Outline
8/31 - 9/24	Lab Activities: Chemotaxis of Caenorhabditis elegans and related projects Related topics: introduction to the molecules and cells of life factors determining an organisms phenotype C. elegans as a model organism signal transduction/ how organisms sense and respond to changes in their environment introduction to cell structure membrane structure membrane potential
10/1 - 10/15	Lab Activities: Photosynthesis, respiration and related project Related topics: energy transformations and redox reactions glycolysis TCA cycle electron transport systems light and dark reactions of photosynthesis
10/29 - 11/5	Lab Activities: Genetic transformation, the lac operon and related project Related topics: introduction to the central dogma for the transmission and expression of genetic material replication transcription and transcriptional regulation
11/12 - 12/10	Lab Activities: cloning, mutagenesis and related project Related topics: molecular cloning and analysis techniques mutagenesis

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