DATE

LAB TOPIC

8/25

·   Lab Safety

·   Meiosis (Before lab, read pages 26-29 in the textbook)

·   Probability (Before lab, read sections 3.6 and 3.7 on pages 49-50 of the textbook)

9/1

No lab this week!  Labor Day Holiday on Monday, Sept. 1.

9/8

·   Drosophila and all you ever wanted to know about fruit flies.

·   Set up monohybrid & dihybrid crosses

9/15

·  Chi-Square (Before lab, read section 3.8 on pages 50-52 of the textbook)

·  Sex linkage

9/22

·  Analyze monohybrid crosses

·  Set up second mating for dihybrid cross

·  Linkage and crossing over

9/29

·  Drosophila  polytene chromosomes

10/6

·  Score dihybrid crosses

·  Score mapping crosses

·  Analysis

10/13

·  Monday Sept. 13: Lab Exam 1

10/20

·  Human cheek cell DNA

·  Bacterial conjugation

·  Bacterial transformation

10/27

·  Plasmid DNA isolation

·  Restriction digestion

11/3

·   Gel electrophoresis

·  PCR

11/10

·  PCR cleanup and DNA sequencing

11/17

·   Population genetics

11/24

·  Analysis of DNA sequences

12/1

·  Lab Exam 2

12/8

·  No lab this week