BSC2011
Integrated Principles of Biology II
Spring 1997

Sections 0543x and 0544x

Instructors: Drs. D.A. Jones and C.W. Osenberg

Lecture Schedule and Links

Week Lecture Topic Readings in
Campbell
Jan. 6 Introduction to Course
Life, Mitosis, Meiosis		 11:204-221
12:225-237
Jan. 13 Classical Genetics 13:238-261
Jan. 20 Classical Genetics (continued) 14:262-280
Jan. 27 Molecular Genetics 15:281-296
16:297-323
Feb. 3 Molecular Genetics (continued)
Thursday: Discussion Section
Friday: Midterm I		 17:324-350
Feb. 10 Molecular Genetics (continued)
Recombinant DNA		 18:351-368
19:369-395
Feb.17 Population Genetics
Evolutionary Processes
Quantitative Genetics
[Four lectures this week: no discussion]		 21:416-435
22:436-453
& other sources
Feb. 24

(Dr. Osenberg
begins lecturing
28 Feb.)		 Tuesday: Discussion Section
Wednesday: Midterm II
Additional Notes From Dr. Jones
Thursday and Friday: Evolution as a Process

Review 21:416-435
Reread 22:436-453
Mar. 3
Discussion		 Evolution as a Process (continued)
 20:399-415
23:454-481
Tree of Life
Metazoan Evolution
Evolution: Fact and Theory
Darwin's Life and Works
Mar. 10 SPRING BREAK
Mar. 17
Discussion		 Evolution: Phylogenetics (continued)
Behavioral Ecology

 23 (continued)
50:1172-1206
(use this chapter for background;
rely on lecture for details;)
Mar. 24
Discussion		 Behavioral Ecology (continued)
Thursday: Discussion Section
Friday: Midterm III
Old Exams
Result of Exam III		 50 (continued)
Mar. 31
Discussion		 Population Ecology 46:1061-1092
47:1093-1117
Apr. 7
Discussion		 Population Ecology
Human Population Growth		 47 (cont.)
Populus
Other modelling software
Apr. 14
Discussion		 Community Ecology
 48: 1118-1144
Apr. 21 Community Ecology (cont.)
Ecosystem Ecology and Human Impacts
[No classes on April 24 or 25]		 49:1145-1171

Wednesday, April 30
FINAL
Old Exams
8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
You must go to the following locations:
Section 0543 (3rd period) -- MCC 100
Section 0544 (5th period) -- NRN 137
auditors -- NRN 137

Want to check out some additional sources of information (in addition to those listed in the syllabus)?

Zoology Department
Botany Department
CLAS College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Biological Sciences home page
Dr. Jones' home page
Dr. Osenberg's home page
Tree of Life (an excellent treatment of phylogenetic relationships of many taxa)