Unit 1: The Molecular Basis of Evolution

Shooting the Poop 🐛🍃💩

• Videos of caterpillars "shooting" their poop:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxYuLjyf1Qw

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW5j7eY15Yw

• Primary article

Unit 1 Lectures

POWERPOINT: Ch. 18, Part 1 (PDF)

• READING QUIZ CHAPTER 18, Part 1

• Diagram Set, Chapter 18

• Tryptophan operon animation

• Lac Operon Sumanas Inc

• Lac operon animation (video)

• Lac operon induction 

• Lac operon (glucose vs. no glucose)

Prokaryotic Gene Expression Practice Questions

POWERPOINT: Ch. 18, Part 2 (PDF)

• READING QUIZ CHAPTER 18, Part 2

• Eukaryotic nucleosome models - rubric

• Video: Intro to epigenetics (5:36)

• Video: Why inheritance is weirder than we thought (2:47)

• Animation: How DNA is packaged

• Animation: Histones, nucleosomes, and acetylation

• Article: Histone modification, sleep deprivation, and memory

• Article: Methylation and colon cancer

• Animation - Transcription Complex and Enhancers

• Video - Stickleback Fish (Evolving switches) (16min)

• Video - Icefish genes! (13min)

• Video (and article) - How snakes lost their legs (3min)

• Epigenetics website worksheet

  • Link - Epigenetics simulations

• Article: Price of Silent Mutations

  • Reading Quiz Link (Silent Mutations)

• Article: Alternative Genome

  • Reading Quiz Link (Alt Genome)

  • Alternative Genome PPT 

• Video: 9 Months That Made You (PBS) - The family with 6 fingers

Nucleosome Modeling Project

• Slideshow with pics and extra information

POWERPOINT: Ch. 21

• READING QUIZ CHAPTER 21

• Diagram Set: Chapter 21

• Animation: Changes to chromosome structure

• Animation: Gene duplication and homologous genes

Practice Questions - Unit 1 Quiz

Things we didn't do yet, but may still...

• Lac operon animation 

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