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Schedule: Spring '23 REVISED 1/13/2022
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Date |
Lecture Description | Chapter(s) |
1 |
Jan. 10th |
Course Overview / Meaning of "Life" | 1.3, 25.1 |
2 |
Jan. 12th |
Scientific Method | 1.1 |
3 |
Jan. 17th |
History of Life / Origins of Evolutionary Thought | 1.4.. |
4 |
Jan. 19th |
Origins & Mechanisms of Evolution cntd. | 1.4, 21 |
5 |
Jan. 24th |
Speciation | 22 |
6 |
Jan. 26th |
Quiz 1: Phylogenies | 23 |
7 |
Jan. 31st |
Who are the PROkaryotes? | 24 |
8 |
Feb. 2nd |
Origins of the EUkaryotes | 1.3, 25 |
9 |
Feb. 7th |
Cell Division I | 11 |
* * |
Feb. 9th |
TEST I | * * |
10 |
Feb. 14th |
Cell Division II | 11 |
11 |
Feb. 16th |
Mendelian Genetics I | 15 |
12 |
Feb. 21st |
Mendelian Genetics II | 15 |
13
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Feb. 23rd |
Sex Linked Inheritance | 16, 20 |
Feb. 28th |
Mid-term point -last day to add/drop | ||
14
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Feb. 28th |
Sex-Linkage II | 21.3 |
15
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Mar. 2nd |
Quiz 2: Hardy-Weinberg | 20.3, 20, |
16 |
Mar. 7th |
Chemistry -Basics | 2 |
17 |
Mar. 9th |
Carbon Chemistry Biomacromolecules | 2, 4.1, 3.1-3.3, 5 |
Mar. 13th - Mar. 19th |
Spring Break | ||
18 |
Mar. 21st |
Enzymes & Energetics | 6 |
* * |
Mar. 23rd |
TEST II | * * |
19 |
Mar. 28th |
Cell Metabolism | 25.1 6 / 7 |
20 |
Mar. 30th |
Cell Metabolism -Respiration | 7 |
21 |
Apr. 4th |
Photosynthesis | 8 |
22 |
Apr. 6th |
Central Dogma: Replication | 3.1, 3.2. 3.3, 12, 14.1-14-3 |
23 |
Apr. 11th |
Quiz 3: Central Dogma:Transcription | 3.4, 19 |
24 |
Apr. 13th |
Central Dogma: Translation | 4.2 |
25 |
Apr. 18th |
Gene Regulation I | |
26 |
Apr. 20th |
Gene Regulation II | |
** | Apr. 25th | Final Examination 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Lectures 18 - 26 |
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