Discussion Groups

Discussion Sections

Homework assignments will be available in-class and on the web page each Monday and are due the following Monday in lecture or, by 12:00 noon at the latest, to your TA. Homeworks and take-home exams will be collected and graded by your TA (following a shared key) and handed back to you in your discussion section. Therefore, inquiries related to the handling of these assignments should be first directed to your TA.


Week Topic Homework Due

Jan 26

Groups do not meet this week

Feb 2

Meiosis & Mendelian genetics

HW1

Feb 9

Gene action; independent assortment; probability

HW2

Feb 16

Sex-linkage; pedigree analysis

HW3

Feb 23

Linkage and genetic mapping // EXAM 1

None (Take-home 1)

Mar 2

Evolution: Science and society

HW4

Mar 9

Hardy-Weinberg principle

HW5

Mar 16

4 forces; Populus exercises

HW6

Mar 23

Sexual selection; Adaptation

HW7

Mar 29

SPRING BREAK

Apr 6

Polygenic traits //Exam 2

None (Take-home 2)

Apr 13

No discussion section this week

no HW this week

Apr 20

History of life & speciation; Orgel article (read for section)

HW8

Apr 27

Phylogeny reconstruction

HW9

May 4

 

 

Section Schedule (rooms still subject to change)
If you need to miss your normal discussion meeting time, you may attend an alternative time by prior arrangement with both TAs. Otherwise, please attend the section you are enrolled in (or committed to early on) regularly.

Section

CRN

Time

Room

TA

02

30230

T 9-10

NS 207

Lindy

03

30231

T 11-12

HS 411

Ellen

04

30232

Th 9-10

NS 207

Jon

05

30233

W 11-12

NS 307

Ellen

06

30235

W 10-11

GALL L04

Lindy

07

30236

W 11-12

LA 244

Lindy

08

30237

T 10-11

LA 334

Lindy

09

30238

T 10-11

LA 201

Ellen

10

30461

Th 10-11

NS 207

Jon

11

30462

Th 11-12

HS 411

Jon

12

30493

T 1-2

LA 235

Ellen

13

30494

Th 1-2

LA 202

Jon