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Advanced Biology Assignments 2007-2008 10/17/07 Mad cow disease video Know the following terms - scrappie - kuru - CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) - BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy) - CWD (chronic wasting disease) - Prion—what are they and how to they cause disease - Why is the prion theory so hard to accept
10/22/07 DNA Lecture - Be able to name and recognize the different purines and pyrimidines. - Know the difference between nucleosides, nucleotides, and nucleic acids - Name the various types of nucleic acids, (DNA, mRNA, tRNA, rRNA) - Be able to distinguish between the various nucleosides and nucleotides. Be able to match the structural formulas with the correct name. - Understand what is meant by antiparallel structure and be able to recognize the 3’ end and 5’ end of a nucleic acid - Read and be familiar with all vocab and ideas presented in Chapter 4.1 of your textbook
10/26/07 Textbook - Be familiar with all concepts and vocabulary in 3.1
10/29/07
Lab - You should know how to perform the following lab procedures: o Use a compound microscope to find a cell under high and dry power o Estimate the size of a cell o Streak a culture plate with bacteria or yeast using the Z streaking method to obtain individual colonies. o Accurately pipet various liquid volumes o Use a micropipette to measure various liquid volumes
3rd 6 weeks 11/30/07
From the labs:
Know the background material from the cheese-making lab
From videos:
Epigenetics - what is meant by epigenetics - describe two ways in which the genetic code can be switched off or on - describe some evidence that supports the idea of epigenetics
From your textbook:
- all terms and ideas from sections 5.2-5.4
12/13/07 From Lecture: - if given a DNA sequence be able to predict the amino acid sequence for which the DNA was the template - be able to describe the processes occurring during transcription and translation - be able to describe the function of mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA
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