Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Topics: Mendel and his pea plants Alternatives to dominant-recessive inheritance Lethal alleles Pedigree analysis Genetic linkage and crossing-over Sex chromosomes in humans Changes in chromosome numbers: aneuploidy and euploidy Chromosomal aberrations Learning Objectives: • Solve genetics problems involving linkage, sex-linked inheritance, dominant/recessive alleles, incomplete dominance, codominance, and epistasis, for a maximum of three loci. • Analyze pedigrees to determi...

Topics: DNA structure Replication of DNA Learning Objectives: • Identify the key proteins and enzymes needed for DNA replication and describe the purpose of each. • Explain the mechanism of replication as it occurs in bacteria. • Identify and explain how the nature of the eukaryote genome complicates replication; explain how those difficulties are addressed

Topics: Oxidation/Reduction (redox) reactions and electron carriers Glycolysis Citric acid cycle Oxidative phosphorylation Connection of other metabolic pathways to respiration Regulation of glucose uptake in cells Respiration without oxygen Learning Objectives: • Label the substrates, products and enzymes used in glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, lactic acid fermentation, and alcohol fermentation, then use this figure to write complete reaction equations...

Topics: Cell theory, The three-domain organization of life, Archea, Bacteria, Eukaryotes, Specialized cell junctions Learning Objectives: • Identify, label, and explain the function of the major structures and organelles of bacterial and eukaryotic cells. • Predict the function or location of eukaryotic cells based on their structure, features, and junctions. • Explain the factors limiting the size and shape of cells. • Compare mitochondria and chloroplasts in terms of structure a...

Topics: Prokaryotes divide by binary fission, Introduction to eukaryotic, genomes, The Eukaryotic cell cycle

Macromolecules in bio-inspired design: read science articles about macromolecules being used to help humanity, then answer questions