TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Days
Topics
Textbook pages (10th edition
Textbook pages (9th edition)
5/28 Introduction
Cellular Division/Mitosis

1-11
12-21

1-11
12-21
       
5/29 Mitosis/Meiosis
Mendelian inheritance 		21-27
31-39 		21-27
31-39
       
5/30 More Mendelian inheritance

39-46

39-46
       
6/3 Pedigrees and human genetic disorders
 46-48 46-48
       
6/4 EXAM 1
Begin chromosome theory of inheritance
    
       
6/5 Chromosome theory of inheritance
Gender determination
Chromosomal abnormalities 		66-70

83-96
99-117

66-70

84-96
99-117

       
6/7 Extranuclear inheritance
Extensions of Mendelian genetics 		72-76
53-66

73-76
53-66
       
6/10 Genetic expression
Epigenetics
Linkage, crossover and mapping

70-72
439-449
121-133

70-73
464-473
120-138
       
6/11 EXAM 2
Begin nucleic acid structure
   
       
6/12 Nucleic acid structure
Video: Race for the Double Helix (extra credit) 		161-179 160-176
       
6/13 More nucleic acid structure
Chromosome organization 		202-215 199-212
       
6/17 DNA replication 182-199 180-196
       
6/18 EXAM 3
Begin transcription and RNA
    
       
6/20 Transcription and RNA
 218-234 215-237
       
6/24 Translation 241-258 238-255
       
6/25

EXAM 4
Mutation

261-281 257-276
       
6/26

Regulation of prokaryotic gene expression
Review for final

 285-299 280-301
       
6/27 FINAL EXAM

    
Optional Genomics Lab   177

Note: Dates of exams are subject to change