Autumn
2009
FISH/BIOL 340 - Genetics and Molecular Ecology
Links
General
- Talking Glossary of genetic terms
- in case you want to hear genetic terms without Austrian accent...
- How to Write a Paper
- Excellent summary of advice on writing scientific paper, preparing figures and tables and collating a well formatted reference list by Greg Anderson, Department of Biology, Bates College. Consult this site if you have any questions regarding the project report.
Animations
- DNA interactive
- Animated description of the history of DNA exploration, DNA code, modern genome science and their applications from the Cold Springs Harbor Labs.
- DNA from the beginning
- Another animated site on classical and molecular genetics and their application, also from the COld Spring Harbor Labs
- Biological Animation Library
- Nice animations of PCR, sequencing and electrophoresis. This is the one Mike showed to you in the lab
- Replication
- Another animation of replication, this one from McGraw & Hill.
- PCR Animation
- Animation from McGraw & Hill
- Another PCR Animation
- showing the different length fragments produced by PCR
- Transcription
- Animation of transcription from DNA to mRNA
- Meiosis
- Animation of Meiosis from Cells Alive
- Mitosis
- Animation of mitosis from Cells Alive
- Pyrosequencing animation
- good, if promotional, explanation of pyrosequencing by the manufacturers of the machine, Roche. Have a look at DNA librarty preparation, emPCR and sequencing.
Labs
- PopTools
- Excellent Add-In for Excel to do all sorts of tricky permutation and bootstrapping tests, mark recapture, life tables etc. You will need this Add-In to run Parentage 4.xls, the spreadheet we used in the parentage lab.