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Date

Subject of Lecture

Recommended Reading in Becker (B) or Purves (P) 4^th edition

1

Tuesday,
5/26

Introduction If your background in biology is weak, you should read all of Chapter 4 in one of the texts

B: Ch 1 & Ch 4, p. 80-88, P. 104-106
P: Ch 1 & Ch 4, p. 61-68

2

Wednesday,
5/27

What's in a Cell?
Classes of Biomolecules

B: Ch 2 to p.32 & Ch. 3 p.61 to end
P: Ch 2 & Ch 3 to p. 47

3

Thursday,
5/28

Amino Acids & Peptides

B: Ch 3 p. 45-48
P: Ch 3 p. 47-51 & Box 8.B p. 176

4

Friday,
5/29

3D Protein Structure & how it is determined

B: Ch 2 p. 32 - end & Ch 3 p. 48-56
P: Ch 3 p. 51-55

5

Monday,
6/1

Enzyme Function

B: Ch 6 to p. 155
P: Ch 6 to p. 126

6

Tuesday,
6/2

Pathways & Enzyme Regulation

B: Ch 6 p. 155 - end
P: Ch 6 p. 126 - end

7

Wednesday,
6/3

Principles of energy transfer: the importance of ATP & free energy

B: Ch 5 & Ch 11 to p. 300
P: Ch 7 p. 136-144

8

Thursday,
6/5

QUIZ #1 on LECTURES 1-5

B: Ch 11 p. 300 - end & Ch 12 p. 334-345
P: Ch 7 p. 144-149

9

Monday,
6/8

Electron Transport, Oxidative phosphorylation & the mitochondrion

B: Ch 12 -- the rest
P: Ch 7 p. 149 - end

10

Tuesday,
6/9

DNA as hereditary material; nucleic acid structure
& DNA hybridization

B: Ch 3 p. 56-63 & Ch 14 p. 408-421
P: Ch 3 p. 55-59; Ch 11 p. 241-248 & p. 294-295

11

Wednesday,
6/10

DNA synthesis & PCR

B: Ch 15 p. 455-472
P: Ch 11 p. 248-254 & p. 326-328

12

6/11

QUIZ #2 on LECTURES 6-9

B: Ch 17 p. 535-550 & p. 565
P: Ch 11 p. 255-264

13

Monday,
6/15

Translation & genetic code

B: Ch 17 p. 535-537, 547-550, 565 &
Ch 18 p. 569-581
P: Ch 11 p. 260-268

14

Tuesday,
6/16

Wrap up translation, Mutation



Regulation of Protein Synthesis in Prokaryotes

B: Ch 18 p. 582 & Box 18B p. 584
P: Ch 11 p. 268 - end

B: Ch 19 p. 599-610
P: Ch 12 p. 285-end

15

Wednesday,
6/17

Cell Division I: Mitosis & The Cell Cycle

B: Ch 15 p. 453-455 & 472-483
P: Ch 9 p. 191-204

16

Thursday,
6/18

Cell Div. II: Meiosis, Sex determination, Nondisjunction & Life Cycles;

QUIZ #3 on LECTURES 10-13 ( & wrap up of translation)

B: Ch 16 p. 495-508
P: Ch 9 p. 204-end

17

Monday,
6/22

Eukaryotic Genetics I: One gene at a time

B: Ch 16 p. 508-513
P: Ch 10 p. 214-230 (skip dihybrid crosses)
Ch 15 p. 334-338 & figure 15.4

18

Tuesday,
6/23

Euk. Genetics II: More than one gene at a time; linkage & crossing over

B: Ch 16 p. 513-516
P: Ch 10 - rest

19

Wednesday,
6/24

Bacterial & Viral Genetics

B: Ch 16 p. 516-520 & Box 14A p. 413
P: Ch 12 p. 273-284

20

Thursday,
6/25

Recombinant DNA I: Restriction Enzymes, blots & RLFP's

QUIZ #4 on LECTURES 14-17

B: Ch 14 p. 421-431 & Box 14C p. 446
P: Ch 14 p. 320-323 & Ch 15 p. 340-344

21

Friday,
6/26

Recombinant DNA II: Cloning, Libraries, etc

B: Ch 16 p. 520-end
P: Ch 14 - rest

22

Monday,
6/29

Eukaryotic Gene Structure & RNA processing


Darwinian evolution & population genetics

B: Ch 17 p. 556-end
P: Ch 13 to p. 300 & Fig 13.6

P: Ch 19 to p. 437

23

Tuesday,
6/30

Molecular Evolution

P: Ch 19 p. 437 - end & p. 298-299

24

Wednesday,
7/1

Study Day - Review Session

25

Thursday,
7/2

FINAL EXAM! Covers everything, but will stress lect. 18-23