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

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Readings

1. Mendel Paper

Exams

1. Mid-Term Key

Resources

1. Sample webpages

Student Projects

• 2009
  1. Paul Kammerer's Neo-Lamarckian Experiments (1905-1926) and the "Midwife Toad" Controversy
  2. The Work of Rosalind Franklin on X-Ray Crystallography and the Watson-Crick Model
  3. Rosalind Franklin; Innovation, Controversy, and Tragedy
  4. Archibald E. Garrod And Alkaptonuria
  5. Meselson-Stahl Experiment on DNA Replication
  6. Early Developments in Chromosome Linkage Mapping
  7. Beadle and Ephrussi: Laying the Groundwork
  8. Quantitative Inheritance in Wheat: the Work of Herman Nilsson-Ehle (1909)
  9. Barbara McClintock and the Jumping Genes
  10. East and Jones - Hybrid Vigor, Inbreeding, and Outbreeding
  11. Erwin Chargaff: Explorations in Nucleic Acids