See Exam II - Ground Rules for issues regarding how the exam is conducted and what is due when.

Questions for the exam will taken (with some modification) from the various Problem Sets, Study Questions, investigations, and companions covered since the beginning of the semester. The following (list may be modified) are fair game:

Problem Sets and Exams

• Exam I: (nature of the course)
• Problem Set 1: Strategies of Life & how to find articles
• Problem Set 2: Protein
• Problem Set 3: Protein
• Problem Set 4: DNA Structure and replication

Study Questions from notes for:

• Strategies of Life
• Protein
• Sanger & Tuppy (1951) companion (plus notes on paper chromatography)
• Perutz et al (1965) companion
• DNA structure (SQ3-6 and Part D)
• DNA replication
• Meselson & Stahl (1958) companion

Investigations and tutorials

• Self Assembly
• What is a Gene? and its companion
• Exercises on results vs conclusions (Part 1, Part 2)
• Exercise on shedding preconceptions
• Build your own DNA
• Your research proposal

...and that's it! If you can solve these problems and answer the questions, you should be able to do the same readily on the exam.

For more, see Course at a Glance, Objectives and Strategies, Integrative Exams.