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Laboratory in Microbial Population Biology
BIOL350 SP

This course will give students concurrently enrolled in Biology 349 an opportunity to learn how to design, conduct, and interpret experiments in evolutionary biology using bacteria as a model system. Experiments will be planned around one or more of the following (or related) issues: reconstructing the evolutionary history of a group of bacteria, characterizing the frequency and promiscuity of sexual exchange of genes in bacterial populations, characterizing the importance of natural selection in determining genetic diversity in natural populations of bacteria, and determining the extent of fitness variation in natural populations of bacteria. The course will meet only for the second half of the semester. Students have five days after the first day of class to add this class.

MAJOR READINGS

Recent journal articles, mostly from EVOLUTION and THE AMERICAN NATURALIST.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Quizzes. A paper, in the form of a journal article, presenting the student's experiments.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Students must either be concurrently enrolled in, or have already taken, Biology 349. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: .5    Gen Ed Area Dept: NSM BIOL    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: (MB&B205 AND BIOL206 AND BIOL207)

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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