BNFO 301 
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Questionnaire on notes: Strategies of Life and Protein
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Spring 2008 

For this and all future questionnaires, feel free to skip the multiple choice and go straight to comments in your own words, which are much more valuable to me anyway.

I. Basic Information

A. Your name 

B. What do you need? I would like to have a feel of who everyone is and where they stand. I certainly don't. Could you help me out by giving me a summary of where you are regarding what has happened thus far in the semester and what you feel you need to make this a useful experience for you?

II. Biological Information
Please describe your comfort level with the following concepts:
A. How information passes from DNA through RNA to protein? (at the level set in the reading) 

B. The mechanism by which genes might determine the function of an organism? 

C. How amphipathic lipids can self-assemble into the sphere shown in Fig. 2B? 

D. The relationship between monomers and the four major types of biological polymers? 

E. In general how enzymes might determine the nature of a cell? 

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

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Comments regarding Biological Information:
III. Protein structure and function>
Please describe your comfort level with the following concepts:
A. What are amino acids and how they differ from one another? 

B. How amino acids are joined to form proteins? 

C. (In general) How the sequence of amino acids of a protein contribute to its ultimate three-dimensional shape? 

D. The distinction between primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures of proteins? 

E. How the entire three-dimensional structure participates in forming the critical active site of chymotrypsin? 

F. Two ways in which hydrophobic amino acids can direct a protein to sit in a membrane? 

G. How a greater ability to predict protein function from its primary structure would change the world we live in? 

H. What all of this has to do with bioinformatics? 

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

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Questions regarding protein structure / function:
IV. Put here any miscellaneous comments, questions, suggestions, concerns you may have
 

Thanks!

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