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BISC219, Genetics Lab, models investigative science. Although we can't provide individualized materials for you to design experiments to investigate questions you come up with on your own because of cost, time constraints, and your inexperience in using some of the tools, we want you to learn first hand this semster how scientists use genetic principles and techniques to answer basic and nuanced questions about gene structure and function and how that knowledge can be applied more broadly and communicated to the scientific community. Although your instructors have defined the questions and designed the experiments that will be used to address those questions, you must be able to, at any point in an investigation, describe what you are doing (summary of the experimental design and where you are in that process of completing the experiments), why you are doing it (experimental question(s) and goals), and what it means if x happens versus y when you collect your data (have a hypothesis formulated from basic genetic prinicples or previous studies).<BR><BR> | BISC219, Genetics Lab, models investigative science. Although we can't provide individualized materials for you to design experiments to investigate questions you come up with on your own because of cost, time constraints, and your inexperience in using some of the tools, we want you to learn first hand this semster how scientists use genetic principles and techniques to answer basic and nuanced questions about gene structure and function and how that knowledge can be applied more broadly and communicated to the scientific community. Although your instructors have defined the questions and designed the experiments that will be used to address those questions, you must be able to, at any point in an investigation, describe what you are doing (summary of the experimental design and where you are in that process of completing the experiments), why you are doing it (experimental question(s) and goals), and what it means if x happens versus y when you collect your data (have a hypothesis formulated from basic genetic prinicples or previous studies).<BR><BR> | ||
Part 2: Your first assignment will be to submit the preliminary data for your first crosses to your instructor by email on the 3rd day after Lab 1 (so your instructor will know if your crosses worked) | Part 2: Your first assignment will be to submit the preliminary data for your first crosses to your instructor by email on the 3rd day after Lab 1 (so your instructor will know if your crosses worked)<BR><BR> | ||
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Lab 1 Assignment: Entry Survey (2.5 pts); Defining your Experimental Question and Summarizing your Experimental Design; Diagramming your Crosses; Submitting your data for instructor check (10 pts)
Part 1: If you haven't already done so, please make sure that you have completed your on-line Entry Survey on Survey Monkey at this link [http:www.????]. You are on your honor to complete this entry survey before the second lecture and before you have started reading your textbook or the background information found in the lab wiki. You will be asked to take this survey again at the end of the course. To reward you for completing this genetics knowledge survey twice, we will give you 5 points (2.5pts for each completed survey) as an incentive. The survey is designed to help us assess how well BISC219 teaches core genetics concepts and it will help us know how to improve the course for future students. Thank you for your valuable input.
BISC219, Genetics Lab, models investigative science. Although we can't provide individualized materials for you to design experiments to investigate questions you come up with on your own because of cost, time constraints, and your inexperience in using some of the tools, we want you to learn first hand this semster how scientists use genetic principles and techniques to answer basic and nuanced questions about gene structure and function and how that knowledge can be applied more broadly and communicated to the scientific community. Although your instructors have defined the questions and designed the experiments that will be used to address those questions, you must be able to, at any point in an investigation, describe what you are doing (summary of the experimental design and where you are in that process of completing the experiments), why you are doing it (experimental question(s) and goals), and what it means if x happens versus y when you collect your data (have a hypothesis formulated from basic genetic prinicples or previous studies).
Part 2: Your first assignment will be to submit the preliminary data for your first crosses to your instructor by email on the 3rd day after Lab 1 (so your instructor will know if your crosses worked)
Part 3: Please read ALL of the
