Course Schedule - Bio 101 - Fall 2009

General Outline. See Detailed Syllabus for up-to-date information.

Date Lecture Laboratory
Aug 31 M
1 T
3 Th		 Introductions; Getting ready for Laboratory
An Evolutionary Framework for Genetics and Ecology
Genetics: An overview of Neo-Darwinian Genetics		 Quantitative Skills: Stickleback and Bombina tadpoles
Sept 7 M
8 T
10 Th		 No class-Labor day
The Bombina experiment; Intro to population genetics
Genetics: At the population level

Tadpole Plasticity I
Population Genetics
Sept 14 M
15 T
17 Th		 Stickleback in the Canyon; Intro to population ecology
Ecology: Population growth models
Ecology: Environment and the Ecological Niche		 Reed Canyon
Stickleback I
Sept 21 M
22 T
24 Th		 Stickleback/Bombina Lab Lecture
Ecology: Population Structures
Evolution and Conservation		 Canyon Stickleback II
Tadpole Plasticity II
Sept 28 M
29 T
Oct 1 Th		 First midterm exam
Homology and the unity of life
Diversity: evolutionary processes		 Assessing Homology & Organizing Diversity
Oct 5 M
6 T
8 Th		 Comparative plant reproduction
Diversity: species and speciation
Diversity: species and speciation		 Plant Reproductive Diversity
Oct 12 M
13 T
15 Th		 Constructing and using phylogenis
Phylogeny and taxonomy
Plant origins		 Phylogenetic Analyses
Oct 17-25 FALL BREAK FALL BREAK
Oct 26 M
27 T
29 Th		 Plant-Herbivore interactions
Plant diversification
Species interactions and diversity		 Brassica Responses to Herbivory
Nov 2 M
3 T
5 Th		 Second midterm exam
Safety/Microbial Populations/Cultivation
Biology of the Cell		 Aseptic Technique/ Personal Culture / Microbial Populations
Nov 9 M
10 T
12 Th		 Microbial Growth
Bacterial Anatomy
Bacterial Anatomy		 Microbial Growth / Staining
Nov 16 M
17 T
19 Th		 Conjugation
Molecular Genetics
Molecular Genetics		 Conjugation / Coliformsin Reed Lake / Antimicrobials
Nov 23 M
24 T
26 Th		 NO LAB LECTURE
Prokaryotic Horizontal Gene Transfer
NO LECTURE - Thanksgiving		 NO LABS - Thanksgiving
Nov 30 M
Dec 1 T
3 Th		 Antibiotic Resistance
Energetics
Energetics		 Data Analysis
Dec 7 M
8 T
Dec 14 M		 Midterm Review
Third midterm exam
Final Exam 6-9pm VLH		 NO LABS