The notes were intended to provide a preliminary greeting to codon usage. If you didn't get this far, not to worry.
A. Choose study questions from Wednesday's notes that you would most like discussed in class:
SQ11
SQ12
SQ13
SQ14
B. Choose study questions from Monday's notes that you would most like discussed in class:
SQ1
SQ2
SQ3
SQ4
SQ5
SQ6
SQ7
SQ8
(note: SQ9 was excluded because we have not discussed the BioBIKE concept of 'tables',
without which you'd be hard pressed to answer this question)
C. Perhaps the following will inspire you to comment in the box below:
- Why might codon frequencies hold reasonably constant for genes of a specific genome?
- Why is calculating codon frequencies more complicated (I don't mean more tedious) than calculating dinucleotide frequencies?
- What is the distinction between absolute and relative codon frequencies?
- Do you feel able to calculate a relative codon frequency, given the data in the table on page 2 of the notes?
- Does the calculation of relative codon frequency shown at the top of Box 3 make sense?