College of the Holy Cross
Department of Biology
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

• June 30: Introduction and Design of Experiments
  
  • Class slides in pdf
  • Scientist at Work | Norman T. Uphoff Food Revolution That Starts With Rice NY Times 6/17/08
  • Discussion 1: An Experimental Design. This exercise is relies on the preceding article about the work of Norman T. UPhoff
  • Risk of Surgery for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Record Linkage Studies Leanne Tite, Student BMJ, Vol 16, 2008 Article
    
    
• July 1: Darwin and Genetics
  • Measurement of the Concentration of Viable Cells in a Suspension of Bacteria Laboratory
    
    
• July 2: Descriptive Statistics
  • Class slides in pdf
  • Normal curve with percentiles and standard units from Wikipedia
  • Normal curve of different means and SDs from Wikipedia
  • Calculator Directions: TI-84
  • Sex by Age Data from the US-Census Bureau
    
    
• July 3: Exploring Histograms
  • Examples of summary statistics in practice from Educational Testing Service
  • Worcester County Population and Area Data
    
    
• July 7: Probability Basics
• Dice tossing activity from Mathwire
• Probability Review
  
  
• July 8: Dominant and Recessive Genes: The Work of Mendel
• Experiments in Plant Hybridization (1865), Gregor Mend s groundbreaking paper in English translation.
• Lab on Sordaria
• Results of Sordaria Lab
• Photos of Sordaria from the experiment:
  • Recombinant
  • Recombinant?
  • Recombinant
  • Not recombinant
  • Through focus series
  
  
• July 9: Expected Value and Standard Error
  • Warm-up questions on Discussion on probability (from Statistics by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves).
  • Discussion on Roulette
  • Discusson Solutions
  
  
• July 10: Molecular Basics of Inheritance
• Information on blood types and pregnancy: Expectant Mother's Guide
• Information on HLA, Human Leucocyte Antigen, from Genetically Modified Food
• Animation of Structure of DNA
• Animation of DNA Replication
• Animation of PCR
  
  
• July 15: Confidence Intervals, Significance, and Regression
  • The Monty Hall Problem from the University of California, San Diego (with an on-line version of the game)
  • Worcester County Population and Area Scatter Plots
  • Amazing video of Protein Evolution
  • Protein Evolution in 3d from the Gallery of Biological Imagery at the University of Massachusetts.
    
    
• July 16: Genetic Evidence for Human Evolution