• BIOL-201 Cellular and Molecular Biology, or BIOL-202 Molecular Biology, or BIOG-240 Cell and Molecular Biology for Engineers II

Students are expected to read this entire syllabus and understand it before the first day of class. If you have any questions about the expectations, please email them to the instructor before the first class session. You can find the instructor's email address in our myCourses shell under Classlist.

For this course, you will see that some sessions, or portions of sessions, will require attendance on Zoom at a scheduled time. These sessions in the table below will be colored green or grey.

Other sessions, in blue, red, or yellow, will require outside activity to be done on your own, sometimes at the scheduled time. Instructions for these sessions will be posted and/or emailed in advance.

For red exam times, a Zoom session will be available to ask questions. I recommend joining that Zoom at the start of the exam time in case there are any announcements, such as clarifications.

In this course, I will be your guide. What you learn from this course depends on the effort that you put in. In addition to our in person sessions, there will be many opportunities to ask questions such as email, office hours, class time, and online discussions. Please take advantage of those opportunities.

Each day of lecture (green above) will include a Q&A session. As part of your participation points, you must submit at least three questions about the readings and/or slides from the previous lecture section to the appropriate Assignment box before midnight the night before that session. So the first questions are due on Friday of Week 1 and would be regarding the lecture Week 1 on Wednesday. You must also attend all noted sessions (green and grey) via Zoom, stay for the period, and answer all Zoom polls.

You must post the Q&A questions for at least eight class sessions in green. There are plenty of opportunities to earn this credit, but also some breaks in the schedule to allow you flexibility. I strongly suggest earning the credit as quickly as possible, in case an emergency comes up later in the course. The questions will not be accepted late, as there are many opportunities to get them in.

The below homework questions may be reflective of some questions on quizzes and exams.

All numbers below are Concepts in Action problems from the end of the corresponding chapter. "2.1" corresponds to Chapter 2, first Concept in Action problem. All even numbered problems have answers in the back of the text. Problems from outside the textbook may also be indicated.

All HW assignments are due by 9am on the next class date. Every completed HW assignment is worth 0.5 bonus pts on your final grade. HW must be submitted to the appropriate Assignment box on myCourses. MS Word/MS Excel/OpenOffice/LibreOffice formats are preferred. However, you may submit as a common image format (PNG/JPEG/GIF/TIFF/BMP) or PDF also. You do not need to restate the question. Just be sure it is obvious which answer is for which assigned problem.

Quizzes must be completed within the allotted time.

If more than one person needs a makeup for a specific quiz/exam, everyone will take the makeup on a single day/time. If possible, please email the instructor as soon as possible before the quiz/exam, or as soon as possible after.

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