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This is the website for the course BIOL 202 Genetics taught by Dr. Paul Szauter at the University of New Mexico. We welcome your comments.
The course has now ended. I would like to thank all of the students for their interest, their excellent questions, and all of the work they put into this. It has been a wonderful experience!
Please see the syllabus, the schedule, the lecture notes and extras. There is also an online glossary.
Lectures were held from 12:30 - 1:45 pm on Tuesday and Thursday in Castetter 100 (see schedule).
The Final Exam was scheduled for Thursday, December 12, from 12:30 - 2:30 PM in Castetter 100. The Final Exam was cumulative and questions were recycled from the three exams. Please see the Study Guide for the Final Exam.
The answer key for the Final Exam is posted.
There is also a plot of scores on Exams 1 - 3.
All of the lecture notes through lecture 27 (12/5/2013) are posted.
Summer Research Programs: The first recruiting letters have arrived seeking applicants for summer research programs in 2014. If you have a strong academic record and an interest in participating in a paid summer research program, contact Paul Szauter (pszauter@unm.edu) for more information.
Please sign the petition at whitehouse.gov to get the FDA to back off on 23andMe!
A First Look at Your Own Genome: In the last part of the course, we will be discussing personal genomics. Students interested in having a first look at their own genome were asked to submit an essay of no more than 1,000 words on they thought that they would learn from the experience. The prize for the best essay was a free genome analysis from 23andMe. The deadline for essays was midnight on Friday, September 13, 2013. There was a five-way tie for First Place, as announced in class on Tuesday, September 24, 2013.
The winners are (left to right): Melissa Rivera, Patrick Riedel, Carrie Sander, Daniel Roybal, and Kimberly Wong.
This is not a class assignment, and no extra credit will be awarded for participation. No one will be required to share any of the results of the analysis of their genome with anyone, ever. You can read about one person's experience at OpenHumanGenome.