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Schedule: Fall '22 REVISED 08/20/2022
# |
Date |
Lecture Description | Chapter(s) |
1 |
Aug. 23rd |
Course Overview / Meaning of "Life" | 1.3, 25.1 |
2 |
Aug. 25th |
Scientific Method | 1.1 |
3 |
Aug 30th |
History of Life / Origins of Evolutionary Thought | 1.4.. |
4 |
Sept 1st. |
Origins & Mechanisms of Evolution cntd. | 1.4, 21 |
5 |
Sep 6th |
Speciation | 22 |
6 |
Sep 8th |
Quiz 1: Phylogenies | 23 |
7 |
Sep 13th |
Who are the PROkaryotes? | 24 |
8 |
Sep 15th |
Origins of the EUkaryotes | 1.3, 25 |
9 |
Sep 20th |
Cell Division I | 11 |
* * |
Sep 22nd |
TEST I | * * |
10 |
Sep 27th |
Cell Division II | 11 |
11 |
Sep 29th |
Mendelian Genetics I | 15 |
12 |
Oct 4th |
Mendelian Genetics II | 15 |
13 |
Oct 6th |
Sex Linked Inheritance | 16, 20 |
14 |
Oct 11th |
Sex-Linkage II | 21.3 |
Oct 11th |
Mid-term point -last day to add/drop | ||
15 |
Oct 13th |
Quiz 2: Hardy-Weinberg | 20.3, 20 |
16 |
Oct 18th |
Chemistry -Basics | 2 |
17 |
Oct 20th |
Carbon Chemistry Biomacromolecules | 2, 4.1, 3.1-3.3, 5 |
18 |
Oct 25th |
Enzymes & Energetics | 6 |
* * |
Oct 27th |
TEST II | * * |
19 |
Nov 1st |
Cell Metabolism | 25.1 6 / 7 |
20 |
Nov. 3rd |
Cell Metabolism -Respiration | 7 |
21 |
Nov. 8th |
Photosynthesis | 8 |
22 |
Nov. 10th |
Central Dogma: Replication | 3.1, 3.2. 3.3, 12, 14.1-14-3 |
23 |
Nov. 15th |
Quiz 3: Central Dogma:Transcription | 3.4, 19 |
24 |
Nov. 17th |
Central Dogma: Translation | 4.2 |
Nov. 21st - Nov. 26th |
Thanksgiving Break | ||
25 |
Nov. 29th |
Gene Regulation I | |
26 |
Dec. 1st |
Gene Regulation II | |
** | Dec. 8th | Final Examination 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Lectures 18 - 26 |
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