Reading assignments
include sections from the online
MIT Biology Hypertextbook, numerous scientific
articles, class handouts, online resources, and sections from
the required text.
Freeman, Scott.
Biological Science. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall,
2002. ISBN: 0130819239.
Table for
Readings
|
1 |
Introduction |
p. vi
Chapter 1
pp. 90-94 |
|
2 |
Biochemistry
1 |
Chapter 2
Chem Review
1.1, 1.2 (Bio Hypertext)
pp. 70-77 |
|
3-5 |
Biochemistry
2
Biochemistry 3
Biochemistry 4 |
Chapter 3
Chem Review
1.3, 1.4, 1.5
Large Molecules
1.0, 2.0, 3.1,3.2, 3.4, 4.0, Chapter 6 |
|
6 |
Genetics 1 |
Chapter 10,
pp. 194-201 |
|
7 |
Genetics 2 |
Chapter 10,
pp. 201-214 |
|
8 |
Genetics 3 |
Chapter 8.2
(pp. 159-164) and pp. 176-191 |
|
9 |
Human
Genetics |
Chapter 17.2,
pp. 339-342
Pedigrees
|
|
10 |
Molecular
Biology 1 |
pp. 59-61,
Chapter 11, 12 |
|
11 |
Molecular
Biology 2 |
Chapter 13,
pp. 252-259 |
| |
Quiz 1,
Lectures 1-10 |
|
|
12 |
Molecular
Biology 3 |
Chapter 13,
pp. 259-271, 244-246 |
|
13 |
Gene
Regulation |
Chapter 14 |
|
14 |
Protein
Localization |
Protein
Trafficking. pp. 95-103 |
|
15-18 |
Recombinant
DNA 1
Recombinant DNA 2
Recombinant DNA 3
Recombinant DNA 4 |
Spencer,
Charlotte A. Genetic Testimony: A Guide to Forensic
DNA Profiling. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN: 013142338X. |
| |
Quiz 2,
Lectures 11-17 |
|
|
19 |
Cell
Cycle/Signaling |
pp. 164-168,
864-867 |
|
20 |
Cancer |
Weinberg, R.
A. "How Cancer Arises." Sci Am. 275, no. 3
(September 1996): 62-70.
———. "Finding the Anti-oncogene." Sci Am. 259,
no. 3 (September 1998): 44-51. |
|
21 |
Virology/Tumor Viruses |
Chapter 26,
pp. 501-507
Viruses (PDF) |
|
22-23 |
Immunology 1
Immunology 2 |
Chapter 46
Humoral Immunology (PDF) |
|
24 |
AIDS |
Chapter 26.2,
pp. 507-516
AIDS (PDF) |
|
25 |
Genomics |
Lander, E.
S., and R. A. Weinberg. "Genomics: Journey to the Center
of Biology." Science 287, no. 5459 (March 10,
2000): 1777-82. |
| |
Quiz 3,
Lectures 18-24 |
|
|
26 |
Nervous
System 1 |
Chapter 42,
pp. 806-817 |
|
27 |
Nervous
System 2 |
Chapter 42,
pp. 817-822 |
|
28 |
Nervous
System 3 |
Chapter 42,
pp. 822-827 |
|
29-30 |
Stem
Cells/Cloning 1
Stem Cells/Cloning 2 |
pp. 346,
406-407, 364-367
Essay on p. 826
Growth and Differentiation, a Case of Hematopoiesis (PDF) |
|
31 |
Molecular
Medicine 1 |
NCI Gleevec
Article
pp. 330 |
|
32 |
Molecular
Evolution |
Genetics and Geneology,
Why Y?
The Family Lemba
(PBS Nova)
The Family Cohanim
(PBS Nova)
Did Thomas Jefferson
Father Slave Children? (PBS Nova) |
|
33 |
Molecular
Medicine 2 |
Essay: pp.
782-783
The Cholesterol Quartet
Familial
Hypercholesterolemia |
|
34 |
Human
Polymorphisms and Cancer Classification |
|
|
35 |
Future of
Biology |
|
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