BNFO 300 
Molecular Biology Through Discovery
Questionnaire on: Benzer (1959)
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Fall 2013 


I. Basic Information

A. Your name 
II. Old Business

(No need to respond to any section if you've done so in an earlier questionnaire and nothing's changed)

A. DNA Structure
How do you feel about palindromes? Any other issues?
     

B. Problem Set 5
Any particular concerns about this problem set? ...probability? We'll spend more time on this in a more systematic way in BNFO301, but get used to it.
     

III. Research Proposal
  1. You do have a mentor, yes? If you haven't given me his/her name, now would be a good time.
  2. Have you met with your mentor?
  3. Do you have a plan for building an exhaustive bibliography on a very confined topic?
  4. Early thoughts on a topic?
  5. Other thoughts on your incipient research proposal?
     
IV. Benzer (1959) - What is a gene?

(No need to respond to any section if you've done so in an earlier questionnaire and nothing's changed)

A. How far have you gotten in the companion to Benzer (1959)?
     

B. Have you tried out the analysis tool? If so, was it helpful? Did you find any obstacle in using it?
    Have you been able to transform go from Fig. 4 into Fig. 5?
     

Consider how comfortable you are with the following topics (in the notes DNA Structure):

C. Why determining the structure of genes was an topic that had to be addressed

D. How Benzer's discovery that an rII mutant of T4 could not plate on E.coli K12 opened the possibility of determining the internal structure of a gene

E. What is meant by the topology of a gene

F. What is meant by recombination and how it relates to distance between genetic markers

G. Why some mutants are able to recombine to produce viable progeny on K12 and others cannot

H. What is dictionary order and how it relates to a genetic map

I. What the recombination matrix, Fig. 4, represents

J. How the recombination matrix relates to the genetic map shown in Fig. 5

K. How this analysis relates to the topology of the rII gene
     

Choose up to six study questions that you would most like discussed in class:

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SQ34 SQ35 SQ36 
IV. Miscellaneous

Any other comments, questions, suggestions, or concerns you may have?

Thanks!

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