Course Materials
Handouts
Reading Assignment Sheet # 1
Discussion Section # 1: Mendel and Hybridization Experiments in Peas
Reading Assignment Sheet # 2: February 3, 5 and 10
Discussion Section # 2: The Mendelian-Chromosome Theory of Heredity
Some Pointers on Writing A Précis
Reading Assignment Sheet # 3: February 10 – 24
Web Page Assignment: Some Possible Topics
Discussion Section # 3: Genetics and Agriculture, 1900-1930
Some Hints and Suggestions Regarding Web-Page Design
Discussion Section # 4: Genetics and Society: Eugenics and the Breeding of ”Better People”
Mid-Term Exam Guide
Discussion Section # 5: Genetics and The Evolutionary Synthesis
Reading Assignment # 5: April 2 - 14
Web-Page Projects
Course Wrap-up and Final Exam
PowerPoint
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Readings
Mendel Paper
Exams
Mid-Term Key
Resources
Sample webpages
Student Projects
2009
Paul Kammerer's Neo-Lamarckian Experiments (1905-1926) and the "Midwife Toad" Controversy
The Work of Rosalind Franklin on X-Ray Crystallography and the Watson-Crick Model
Rosalind Franklin; Innovation, Controversy, and Tragedy
Archibald E. Garrod And Alkaptonuria
Meselson-Stahl Experiment on DNA Replication
Early Developments in Chromosome Linkage Mapping
Beadle and Ephrussi: Laying the Groundwork
Quantitative Inheritance in Wheat: the Work of Herman Nilsson-Ehle (1909)
Barbara McClintock and the Jumping Genes
East and Jones - Hybrid Vigor, Inbreeding, and Outbreeding
Erwin Chargaff: Explorations in Nucleic Acids
Natural Sciences Learning Center
Washington University - Biology
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