BNFO 301
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Questionnaire on: Flow of Information
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Spring 2012

I. Basic Information

A. Your name 

B. Do you know others in the class? How many people would you feel comfortable contacting if you have a course concern (e.g. you missed a lab and want to know what happened)? Eventually, you'll have the people in your research group, but would it be useful to have a group earlier in the semester?  
     

C. Are you aware that there are discussion groups in the course Blackboard site concerning lots of possibly pertinent matters (e.g. What-is-a-gene, how to thrive within BioBIKE,...)? Might this be useful to you?  
     

II. What is a gene?
A. How far have you gotten DOING the tutorial, "What is a Gene?"? (of course by DOING, I mean following the problem within BioBIKE)
    You can answer by referring to the last item you addressed (e.g. III.3). 

B. Provide a statement that describes as accurately and completely as possible your current understanding regarding how a cell determines where a gene begins. (Feel free to skip if you already answered this question and your opinion hasn't changed)
     

C. What specific areas within the tour would you like to discuss?
     

III. DNA, Transcription, and Processing of RNA
Consider how comfortable you are with the following topics (as defined by the notes Flow of Information):

A. The notion and implications of the antiparallel structure of DNA

B. The notion of palindromic DNA

C. The different types of RNA

D. What a promoter is

E. The notion of introns and exons

With this in mind, how could class time best be spent to meet your needs?

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

SQ1 SQ2 SQ3 SQ4SQ5 SQ6 SQ7 SQ8
IV. Translation
Consider how comfortable you are with the following topics (as defined by the notes Flow of Information):

A. The nature of the coding problem (how to shove 20 amino acids into an alphabet consisting of only four letters)

B. Using the genetic code to translate an RNA by hand

C. The different types of mutation (e.g. silent)

With this in mind, how could class time best be spent to meet your needs?

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

SQ9 SQ10 SQ11 SQ12
V. Meta-questions

A. How do you feel about the attempt to engage everyone in class discussions?

B. Comments on pace of class discussions? Any suggestions?

C. Other miscellaneous comments, questions, suggestions?

 

Thanks!

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