BNFO 301
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Questionnaire on: Evolution of Genomes
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Spring 2005

I. Basic Information

A. Your name 
II. Evolutionary origin of the nucleus
A. How far did you get in the Discovery Questions for Section 2.1?

B. Do you feel you understand how the graphs in Figures 2.1 through 2.3 were obtained?

C. For example, do you understand why the curves in these graphs always go down when read left to right?

D. Do you understand where the bars in the lower halves of the figures came from and why they're sometimes positive and sometimes negative?

E. Would you feel comfortable explaining t-tests in purely intuitive terms?

Comments re
nuclear origin

III. Bacteria with small genomes and humans (with large)
A. How comfortable are you with the Buchnera story? 

B. How comfortable are you with the Mycobacterium story? 

C. How comfortable are you with the human evolution story? 

D. How comfortable are with the notion of bootstrap analysis? 
Comments re
various stories

IV. Miscellaneous
A. Any thoughts, preferences, etc regarding your research project?

B. Choose up to four Discovery Questions that you would most like discussed in class:

C. How are things going?

Thanks!

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