Genetics Lab 3411

Course Materials and Links to Other Helpful Sites

Contents of this page will change periodically as the instructor posts materials and finds helpful tutorials, animations and lectures.  Visit the Histology and Cell Biology Sites as well!

• Course Syllabus  (Fay Watson's syllabus, other sections of the course follow the same list of investigations)
• List of Labs Chronologically with links to helpful sites
• How to use a Pipetman
• Another version of How to use a Pipetman as a pdf file
• Drosophila Culture Techniques by Dr. Richard Squires
• Expressions of Concentration - description, explanation of how to do the calculations with a problem set for you to attempt
• Blood Typing - What's your type from the Franklin Institute
• Probability and Statistics:
  • Independent Events
  • Dependent Events
  • Mutually Exclusive Events
  • CHI Square

Quick links to Drop you to the following Separate Sections

• DROSOPHILA
• DNA and GENOMICS
• MEIOSIS/MITOSIS
• HEREDITY
• College Genetic Lecture Links

(many of the links below were found on the Biology I Website of North Harris College a North Harris Montgomery Community College)

DROSOPHILA

• Drosophila Culture Techniques by Dr. Richard Squires
• Virtual fly lab BIOL 114 Western Kentucky University
• Drosophila Fly Lab http://www.sciencecourseware.org/vcise/drosophila/ use the code for your lab section to register as a new user.
  • all the sections will have Fay Watson as the instructor
  • remember to record data like phenotypes and numbers and your data analysis in your "notebook"
• Polytene Chromosomes from Salivary Glands of Drosophila virilis: Woodrow Wilson Biology Institute

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DNA and GENOMICS

• Bioinformatics Links by www.colorbasepair.com
• Bioinformatics Sites by Dr. Andrew Kropinski of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Crack the Code of Life - Journey into DNA (Nova episode on PBS)
• DNA Anatomy by John Kirk, also has links to animations of DNA replication, DNA transcription and RNA translation
• DNA Extractions at Home:
  • from an onion
  • extract DNA from anything living University of Utah
  • "At-Home" DNA Extraction Protocol by Integrated DNA Technologies
  • Best Detergent for DNA Extraction at home found at www.virtualsciencefair.org
  • DNA extraction from Wheat Germ University of Utah
• DNA Repair Nature
• DNA Replication E-Bio @ Horton
• DNA Replication Animation on a professors course page
• DNA Replication by John Kyrk
• DNA Replication Wiley
• DNA Microarray Method Davidson College
• DNA Replication/Gel Electrophoresis by Jim Wanamaker of Lew-Port
• DNA Sequencing Wiley
• DNA Workshop from PBS
• Electrophoresis Analysis E-Bio @ Horton
• Gel Electrophoresis E-Bio @ Horton
• Gel Electrophoresis Dr. Thomas G. Chasteen at Sam Houston State University
• Human Genomics Project - Department of Energy
• Mutation Exercise
• Plasmids, Restriction Digestion, DNA gels UCSC Core Lab - Robert Kuhn, PhD
• Population Genetics Links
• Recombinant DNA Technology University of Delaware
• Replication, Transcription and Translation (Basic/Advanced) Nobel eMuseum (very extensive)
• Sequence For Yourself from PBS

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MEIOSIS/MITOSIS

• The Cell Cycle & Mitosis Tutorial from the The Biology Project, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,University of Arizona
• Online Onion Root Tips from the The Biology Project, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,University of Arizona
• Mitosis with Music University of Wisconsin
• Stem Cells GSLC
• Cell Cycle Game (CDK's and cyclins) Nobel Prize 2001
• Independent Assortment Sumanas Inc.
• Meiosis Sumanas Inc.
• Cell Cycle Tutorial from "Cells Alive!"
• Cell Death Kuby Immunology
• Stem Cell Research Dolan DNA Learning Center
• Mitosis and Meiosis - Interactive Exercise by Leif Saul
• Mitosis vs Meiosis from PBS
• Mitosis/Meiosis Simulation by Jon C. Glase at Cornell
• Cell Cycle and Cyclins + Other Cellular Activities BioCreations
• DNA Coiling to form Chromosomes
• The Cell Cycle Wisconsin Online
• How Cells Divide McGraw-Hill
• Sexual Reproduction McGraw-Hill

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HEREDITY

• Genetics Quiz: Mendelian Genetics from About.com
• Basic Principles of Genetics: an Introduction to Mendelian Genetics, Palomar College
• Genetics Tutorials (java script) R.M. Chute of North Harris College
• Java Genetics zeroBio
• Independent Assortment Sumanas Inc.
• Genetics animations California State University, Chico
• Mendel's Peas BioLogica
• Genetics Games ThinkQuest
• A multimedia Guide to Genetic Disorders Your Genes Your Health
• Tokyo University Genetics Study Group Tokyo Medical University
• Karyotype Activities Genetic Science Learning Center, the University of Utah
• Animated Karotyping University of Glasgow
• Karyotype Analysis Monmouth University
• Exploring Our Molecular Selves" Video Genome Project
• What is Inheritance? Genetic Science Learning Center, the University of Utah
• Genetics of Development Annenberg/CPB

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 College Genetic Lecture Links

• Biology 2360 Genetics from Bemidji State
• Bio48 Gneetics and Evolution from David Rand of Brown University, some good basic genetics lectures included
• General Genetics Lecture Notes credit to Dwight Moore at mooredwi@emporia.edu General Genetics Home Page at Emporia State University.
• BIO 434 Population Genetics Lecture Notes
• Home page for Genetics 320, University of Arizona
• Genetics Lecture Notes MIT Department of Biology
   

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Please email the webmaster if you find links that others could use to study for Genetics or Genetics Lab OR if any of the links are no longer valid  junk