News & Announcements 
Biology 212 L01, L03
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R. T. Dillon
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1. The Genetics Laboratory (SCIC 200) is open essentially every day during regular business hours. Dr. Dillon will certainly be present MWF 10 - 10:50, and many other times as well, but it's always best to make an appointment.
2. The Lab Manual is available from the College bookstore. The nine investigations it contains are listed on our lab schedule. Please read the introduction and be familiar with each investigation before class.
3. Attendance.
You are expected to do your share of the work. Many of the labs
(especially the fruit fly ones) can get tedious, and it's unfair to
expect your lab partner to do all the work if you miss a lab. So
if
you're sick, please call 953-8087
so arrangements can be made. Some of the
investigations may be impossible to make up, although you can get the
data
later.
4. Lab reports are quite informal. Just do the analysis and answer the questions at the end of each investigation. You must work closely with your partner to gather the data for most investigations, but please think independently. Everyone should submit his own lab report with his own data analysis. Reports are due on the week noted in our course grading. Lab reports not submitted promptly at the start of class are late, and will be marked off 50%. You have a week-long "grace period" in which to submit your report for half credit, but reports will not be accepted thereafter.
5. MLK Holiday conflicts with our laboratory Monday afternoon, January 21. The investigation scheduled for that afternoon, Probability and Statistics, must nevertheless be completed at some point during the week, and the lab report turned in January 28.
6. Practical quizzes do not consume the entire class period and are not comprehensive. The same policy pertains as in (3) above - contact Dr. Dillon at 953-8087 ASAP if you must miss an quiz. Regardless of your excuse, the later the make-up, the harder the test.
Course Info:
Drosophila Links:
Basic Introduction - A quick and simple introduction to the biology of Drosophila melanogaster, with links.
Flybase - A huge database of the Drosophila genome, including sequences, information on particular genes, regions of chromosomes, published references, and a comprehensive bibliography.
The Interactive Fly - a cyberspace guide to Drosophila genes and their roles in development.
The Drosophila Genome Project - Search the genome, download sequence data, and generally mess around with 120,000,000 nucleotides, courtesy of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project. There are some press releases and other sources of vaguely intelligible info at this site as well.