BNFO 301
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Questionnaire on: Flow of Information
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Spring 2008

I. Basic Information

A. Your name 
II. DNA, Transcription, and Processing of RNA
A. How comfortable are you with the notion notion and implications of the antiparallel structure of DNA? 

B. How comfortable are you with the notion of palindromic DNA? 

C. How comfortable are you with the different types of RNA? 

D. Do you have a sense of what a promoter is? 

E. How comfortable are you with the notion of introns and exons? 

F. Choose up to three study questions that you would most like discussed in class:

SQ1 SQ2 SQ3 SQ4SQ5 SQ6 SQ7 SQ8
Comments for II:
DNA, Transcription, and Processing of RNA
III. Translation
A. Do you understand the nature of the coding problem, how to shove 20 amino acids into an alphabet consisting of only four letters? 

B. How comfortable are you using the genetic code to translate an RNA by hand? 

C. How comfortable are you concerning the different types of mutation (e.g. silent)? 

D. Choose up to two study questions that you would most like discussed in class:

SQ9 SQ10 SQ11 SQ12
Comments for III:
Translation
IV. What is a gene? (same as in previous questionaire, but now it's a week later!)
A. How far have you gotten in the tutorial, "What is a Gene?"?
    You can answer by referring to the last item you addressed (e.g. III.3). 

B. How comfortable are you with the relationship between a gene and a genome?

C. How comfortable are you with the coordinate system?

D. Provide a statement that describes as accurately and completely as possible your current understanding regarding how a cell determines where a gene begins.
     

E. Comments regarding What is a gene? What would help you move forward?
     

V. Meta-questions

A. How do you feel about the attempt to engage everyone in class discussions (in box below)?

B. Other miscellaneous comments, questions, suggestions?

 

Thanks!

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