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Questions Asked and Responses Given

Questions may be sent by e-mail to the instructors or by Anonymous Feedback from the Tool-Kit web pages for each section: Section 1 (8 AM) and Section 2 (11 AM).
  1. Q. I am an incoming first-year interested in enrolling in BIOL 201 and I saw in the Course Offering Directory that two sections of the class is offered, one meeting MWF at 8am and the other MWF at 11am, with both sections having a Friday meeting 1600-1800. You (Huskey) are listed as the instructor for the Friday 1600-1800 meetings of both sections, even though they are listed as being in different buildings (GIL 130 and CHM 402). I am trying to work out my schedule for next fall and was wondering/hoping if there was an error somewhere there. Additionally, I looked up your BIOL 201 website and the Friday 1600-1800 meeting isn't even listed as a"Meeting Time," so I'm wondering if the class meets at all at that time. I would appreciate if you would help me understand the BIOL 201 schedule for both sections.
    A.
    BIOL 201 meets for lectures on MWF at either 8 (section 1) or 11 (section 2). Fridays from 4 to 6 are reserved for problem sessions, reviews, and the three regularly scheduled tests which will be given to both sections at the same time. In addition, the Final Exam will be given in the time slot for courses meeting on Friday at 4 or Thursday, Dec. 16. Mr. Garrett and I will be lecturing in both sections - he will be responsible for the first half of the course and I will take charge for the second half of the course.
    As a student in the course, you should be enrolled in one of the two sections and should attend lectures at the listed time for that section. In addition, you should make sure that you do not schedule another class at the Friday afternoon time since that is when we will be administering tests to both sections.

  2. Q. I am a first year student in the 8:00 BIOL 201 class. I am also taking ANTH 225 and the exams for both classes fall on the same day and time. I e-mailed my ANTH professor because I figured that his exam would be easier to reschedule; however, he suggested that I e-mail you to see if there were any mistakes that you knew about in the exam schedule put out. He thought that two big classes such as these ones would not have exams scheduled on the same day and time. I'd appreciate any help you could give me. Thanks!
    A.
    I just checked the Final Examination Schedule as published on the Registrar's web site and found that the Final Exam time for a MWF course meeting in the 4-6 time period is Thursday, December 16 from 2 - 5 PM. Professor Handler was correct. The schedule information on the Bio 201 web site has been amended.

  3. Q.Please place the lecture transparencies on the web!
    A.
    The lecture notes shown as overhead transparencies are being placed on the web about two days following their presentation in class. The links are contained in the"Syllabus" page. Look for the number of the"Day" in the left hand column to be"hot".

  4. Q.I was doing a bit of self-quizzing and realized that I could not explain the differences between genes, alleles, and chromosomes. The glossary wasn't much help (nor was the chapter), and I would be grateful if you would help me relate them to each other. Thanks.
    A.
    Chromosomes are a single (or doubled as we see them enter mitosis or meiosis) strand of DNA - very,very,very,very,very,very long. They contain millions of base pairs in a long string.

    Somewhere in this long string sequence we begin finding base sequences which, when read in triplets, make sense. This is called an 'open reading frame', and it always begins with a start codon (AUG) and always ends with one of the three stop codons (UAG, etc.) We can call this open reading frame a gene IF it translates into a sensible, functional protein or is biologically active (like a binding site). Note: many do NOT; they're mutated and called pseudogenes.

    On the homologous chromosome to the one we've been looking at (the one from our other parent), at the same location on the string of DNA, is an identical open reading frame. It MAY have one or two different base pairs, which MAY cause one or two amino acid substitutions. These substitutions MAY cause the protein product to express a phenotype slightly differently (blue eyes/brown eyes); therefore we can speak of it as an allele [ different variation ] of the other gene.