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Spring 2008
MCCC 100
Lecture - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in your regular period
Discussion - Friday: Same periods (may include occasional lectures)


Course Syllabus

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Tutors

Test Taking Skills

 

About Studying

Makeups, Exams and Attendance

 

Lectures/Notes for Exam I

Discussion Leader Reviews

 

Dr. Baer's Notes 1 in
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Dr. Baer's Class WebPage
   Dr. Baer's Notes 2 in
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Notes 3 in
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The Supplemental Instruction Leaders will be holding an exam review on Wednesday, February 6th from 6-8pm. They'll spend the first half going over all the material and the second half answering questions. They add that they will also stay as late as necessary to go over information you need help with.  MCCC 100 on 2/6/2008 from 6:15PM - 8:10PM

You-Tube film on the process of translation - submitted by a current student.  DNA copies it's code for making a protein onto messengerRNA (mRNA).  The mRNA leaves the nucleus and goes out into the cytoplasm where it associates with a ribosome.  The DNA message that was put on the mRNA is translated into the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide.  Watch this film now if you want to view a visual presentation on how RNA codes for protein, or save it for when Dr. Baer covers the process of translation in more detail.  Thanks Nina!!

Harvard Cell Animated Video Link - submitted by a former student.  After the first two cell lectures, you should recognize many structures/processes going on in this animation of the cell.  Particularly obvious is the Golgi apparatus sending and receiving vesicles.  You will recognize more of the action after we have discussed the cytoskeleton.  Thanks Jordan!

Supplemental Instruction is a free tutoring/study advice program through the Teaching Center.  The two SI leaders are Shilpa Gogna and Kara Lowe.
Shilpa (shilpa05@ufl.edu) will have  sessions  in the following places at the designated times:
RNK 225 from 10:40am to 11:30am on Mondays
WEIL 234 from 11:45am to 12:35pm on Thursdays
WEIL 273 from 12:50pm to 1:40pm on Thursdays
Kara (klowe4@ufl.edu)  will have the following sessions:
Tuesdays 8th period in FLI 119
Wednesdays 7th period in MAT 005
Thursdays 9th period in FLI 119
They generally post information on E-Learning that you are to print/download and bring with you to the sessions.

If you are interested in more info on the worm lizard, search the net for Amphisbaenia.  Here are links I mentioned in class and some others.  The Finches links include molecular studies of the Galapagos finches.
Erasmus Darwin
Talk Origins Webpage
Links on Evolution and on Darwin's Finches

There will be no lab meetings until Monday, January 14th.  You are required to have your lab manual with you at that time, and it is expected that you will have read the first lab.  Contact your lab instructor if you have questions throughout the semester.  Lecture and lab are separate classes and your lecture instructors generally DO NOT have the latest information about the lab course.

Class attendance is required and you are responsible for taking your own notes. Get to know some of your fellow classmates so that you can help each other with note-borrowing should you have to be absent. Makeup notes are not provided.

This is advice that I gave to a previous class after their first exam.  I thought some of you might do better if you read it before, rather than after, the first exam.

Stem Cell articles and other information
The above articles are for your interest and edification and will not be specifically included on exams, unless they are presented in lecture.

General Course Policy and University Regulations:  You are responsible for all the material in assigned readings in the 7th Edition of Campbell's Biology.  While you may be able to complete the course with a different edition, that is a personal choice which carries with it personal responsibility.  Please do not ask instructors to narrow material or provide more "focus" to your studies.  That is one explicit purpose of lecture.  This is an intensive major's survey course and it includes a lot of material.  For most students, the course generally requires a significant investment of your time.  Please do not ask an instructor for additional consideration if you are not happy with the grade you have earned.  It is unethical and illegal for instructors to artificially boost the grades of any individual.  You MUST earn the grade yourself on the same basis as all the other students in the course.  If you have significant personal difficulties we can support drop petitions but we cannot adjust your grade.  Incompletes are available under extenuating circumstances only.  Also the student must have completed the majority of the work (at least two exams) and must have passed all work attempted.  Incompletes are not allowed for students who are failing.  Please do not ask.  If you are failing, you need to drop.  Makeups are available for extreme and University sanctioned reasons only.  Vacations do NOT qualify as an extreme reason and makeups will NOT be allowed.  Any makeups will be administered at the end of the course to excused students only.  All makeups are by prior arrangement only.  You MUST contact us BEFORE the regular exam takes place.  Attendance is required.  While there is no penalty for absences (except from Exams), makeup notes are only provided for excused absences, and by prior arrangement, only.  Should you choose to skip a lecture you must obtain your notes from a classmate or take notes from the assigned reading.   Absences are NOT a good idea.

To contact Dr. Herrera via email:

(1) All messages must be from your GatorLink account. Any messages that do not originate from the UFL domain will not be answered.
(2) All messages must have your full name in the body of the e-mail message and the header must identify you as a student in the class.