Following is the outline for the classes taught thus far. It is not all the material! See class notes for specific information.

Jan. 8, 2001, Monday

• Lecture: Discussion of Syllabus
• Handouts: Syllabus, Info Sheet
• Submit: Info Sheet

Jan. 10, 2001, Wednesday

• Lecture: DNA, nucleotides, codons, amino acids, polypeptides, protein, enzymes - overview
• Handouts: Two - lecture notes and nucleotide bases

Jan. 12, 2001, Friday

• Lecture: Replication (DNA to DNA), transcription (DNA to RNA), reverse transcription (RNA to DNA), replication (RNA to Protein)
  
• Handout: Information from Redesigning Creation
• Assignment: Read information and we'll discuss on Wednesday.

Jan. 15, 2001, Monday

• No class - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Jan. 17, 2001, Wednesday

• Lecture: Protein, genes, prokaryotes, eukaryotes, exons & introns, Bovine Atrial Naturietric Peptide Gene example
• Handout: The Washington Post article Scientists Create First Genetically Altered Monkey, from Friday, Jan. 12, 2001
• Assignment: Read article and we'll have the discussion planned for today on Friday.

Jan. 19, 2001, Friday

• Lecture: Discussion of articles.
• Handout: From Redesigning Creation
• Assignment: Read article and we'll have more discussion on Monday.

Jan. 22, 2001, Monday

• Lecture: Discussion of articles, continued.
• Handout: From United States Patent 4,438,032, Unique T-lymphocyte line and products derived therefrom, Golde, et al., March 20, 1984.
• Assignment: Read information about patenting of cells, etc. and we'll have a good discussion on Monday.
  Quiz on Friday, Jan. 26, on Chapter 1. (Note the discussion on last Friday, today, and this Monday count toward the assignment grades.)

Jan. 24, 2001, Wednesday

• Lecture: Chapter 2 (started) - strings, sequences, subsequences, supersequences, substrings, superstrings, prefix, suffix, interval.
• Handout: Transparencies.
• Assignment: Read information about patenting of cells, and Chapter 2.
  Quiz on Friday, Jan. 26, on Chapter 1.

Jan. 26, 2001, Friday

• Lecture: Chapter 2 (continued) - Killer agent, graphs: vertices (or nodes), edges, directed, undirected, endpoints, incident, indegree, outdegree, degree
• Quiz: Quiz #1 given.

Jan. 29, 2001, Monday

• Lecture: Discussion of articles.

Jan. 31, 2001, Wednesday

• Lecture: Chapter 2 (continued) - graphs: cyclic, acyclic, paths, trees, adjacency matrices

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