Class
Schedule
Fall 1997
Last
Modified on 10/03/97
Aug 27,28 |
Introduction, Logistics (UT-Austin), Computer orientation, videos: "Discovering the Future", "Mind Walk" and discussion | No TAMU classes, Introduction of Dr. Ellison | Dick (intro. of John Ellison) |
| Systems thinking; Models of cell division; Mitosis; Meiosis | Web, video conference with first animation of diplonema | Team taught, Dick and John | |
| Mendelian Model; Scientific method; probability, Independence, Mutually exclusive, multiplicative rule, Additive rule (Science vs. estimation) | Class participation, V-conf., web, PowerPoint | Team taught | |
| Mendelian segregation, 1, 2 and 3 loci, multiple alleles, Mendelian "laws" | Nan provides flies for document camera use; John brings Siamese cat, V-Conf. | Team taught | |
| Sex determination: Drosophila, Birds, Bees, turtles, Black Mollies; Sex limited, sex influenced alleles; Sex linkage | V-Conf., PP use | Team taught | |
| Mendelian segregation, complications, epistasis, incomplete dominance, co-dominance incomplete penetrance, "cats" | V-Conf., PP use, web images (scanned photos of cats); class assignment for cat data | Dick, John, Nan | |
| Linkage—modification of independent segregation, Tetrad analysis - location of centromeres | V-Conf., PP use | Team Taught | |
Sept 24 |
Linkage among diploid higher organisms, test cross, Drosophila notation, 2 point mapping, 3 loci with two linked | V-Conf., PP use | Team Taught |
| Sept 25 revised |
Population Genetics—cats | Class participation, V-Conf., web | Nan, Dick & John |
Oct 1 |
Linkage, 3 linked loci, Coefficient of coincidence, 3 linked loci from map distances & order | V-Conf., PP use | Team Taught |
Oct 2 revised |
Review mapping, Chromosome aberrations, Inversions translocations | Nan prepares chromosomes, V-Conf., PP use | Team taught |
Oct 8 revised |
Variegated Position effect, Deletions, Aneuploidy, Autopolyploidy, Allopolyploidy, synteny mapping | V-Conf., PP use | Team taught |
Oct 9 |
Crossover and Holliday model, Intro to DNA structure, molecular models from web | V-conf., PP use, second animation of molecular model of crossing over | Team taught |
Oct 15 |
DNA replication , Replication forks Animation: leading strands, lagging strands, Okasaki fragments, Enzymes, Bi-directional replication | V-conf., PP use, third animation of DNA rep. fork, Dick (supercoiling with rope), web | Team taught |
Oct 16 |
Benzer and the phage life cycle, Fine structure mapping, cistron, recons, mutons; rII mutants. | V-conf., web, PP use | Team taught |
Oct 22 |
RNA and transcription; promoters, Termination sequences, cistrons | V-conf., PP use | Team taught |
Oct 23 |
Proteins and Translation, the genetic code, consensus sequences, Initiation and termination sequences; Amino-acyl synthetase system | V-conf., PP use; rolling circle replication on web | Team taught |
Oct 29 |
Mutations: Radiation induced, Electromagnetic waves, particulates; Chemically induced: base analogs, HNO2, alkylating agents, Intercalating agents | V-conf., PP use, web | Team taught |
Oct 30 |
Repair systems, Transposons, p-element, B. McClintock | John's tutorial via V-conf., web, PP use | Team taught |
Nov 5 |
Lac Operon | V-conf., web, PP use | Team taught |
Nov 6 |
Chromosome Structure: Histones, Nucleosomes, 300A, folding, Polytene chromosomes, Regulatory mutants | V-conf., PP use | Team taught |
Nov 12 |
Genetics of the Immune system | V-conf., PP use, web | Team taught |
Nov 13 |
Genetics of the immune system (continued) | V-conf, PP use | Team taught |
Nov 19 |
Genetics of cancer | V-conf., PP use | Team taught |
Nov 20 |
Recombinant DNA: Basic cloning, libraries, RFLP’s, Southern Blot | V-conf., PP use, document camera @ TAMU | Team taught |
Nov 26 |
Dideoxy sequencing, PCR, FISH, PCR sequencing, Concordance RFLP Mapping | V-conf., PP use | Team taught |
Dec 3 |
Ethics of Genetics | V-conf., PP use, web | Team taught |
Dec 4 |
Open Discussion | V-conf., class participation | Team taught |
Dec 9 |
TAMU evaluation of course; No UT-Austin class | None; (no UT classes) | John (UT final exams) |
*Connected to TAMU for test of
equipment and brief introduction to class.