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120:202 Foundations of Biology: Cell and Molecular Biology
Laboratory
Fall 2009
Bio202 Home | Laboratory Manual (PDF) | Blackboard
Instructors: Anthony Brusa (sections 3 and 4), Ying-Han Chen (sections 8 and 9), SoYoung Choi (Sections 2 and 5), Lissette Cruz (sections 1 and 6), and Neeraja Syed (sections 7 and 10).
Office hours: Please check with your instructor regarding office locations and times.
Teaching Laboratory: Life Sciences Center 112 for all sections
Coordinator: Dr. Miguel Cervantes-Cervantes, Boyden 206
Laboratory Instructions
In order to read and print the manual pages, make sure you have Adobe Acrobat Reader (v. 5 or higher) installed in your computer and that you know its basic functions (zooming, printing, navigation through bookmarks and pages, etc.).
Do not print all the exercises at once; also, you do not need to print all the sections of an exercise. Please notice that here is no Table of Contents; instead, use the PDF's bookmarks to find the starting page of each exercise.
Lab reports are due exactly as indicated. Notice that you have to submit four [long]
reports, but notebook keeping (data collection and analysis; discussion and conclusions) is still in place for the other four "wet-lab" exercises.
Calendar of Exercises
Day |
Lab N° and Title |
Notes
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Sep 1–4 |
1. |
Orientation, lab safety, instrument use, review of grading
policies
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2. |
Bioinformatics lab assigned |
Due Sep 15-19
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Sep 8–11 |
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No Lab |
Tue, Sep 7, follows a Monday schedule.
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Sep 15–18 |
3. |
Biological buffers
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Sep 22–25 |
4. |
Enzyme kinetics |
LONG REPORT 1
(due: week of October 6-9)
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Sep 29–Oct 2 |
5A. |
Molecular evolution, part I
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Oct 6–9 |
5B. |
Molecular evolution, part II |
LONG REPORT 2
(due: week of October 13-16)
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6A. |
Human DNA fingerprinting, part I
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Oct 13–16 |
6B. |
Human DNA fingerprinting, part II |
End of materials for lab mid-term exam
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Oct 20–23 |
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Lab
mid-term exam
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Notebook review
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Oct 27–30 |
7. |
Molecular biology of sickle-cell anemia
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Nov 3–6 |
8. |
Bioenergetics I: The Chloroplast |
LONG REPORT 3
(due: week of Nov. 17–20)
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Nov 10–13 |
9. |
Bioenergetics II: The mitochondrion |
LONG REPORT 4
(due: week of Dec. 1–3)
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Nov 17–20 |
10. |
Signal transduction
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Nov 24–27 |
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No Lab
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Thanksgiving recess |
Dec 1–3 |
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Lab notebook review
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Dec 8–11 |
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Lab
final exam
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Dec 15–18 |
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No lab |
Reading days
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Dec 16–23 |
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Lecture final exam |
Finals week |
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