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 are fair game:

Problem Sets

• Problem Set 6: Statistics
• Problem Set 7: Finding sequence motifs
• Problem Set 8: Mixed bag

Study Questions from notes for:

• Gene regulation and phage
• Tour of Madsen et al (1999)
• Tour of Hatfull et al (2008) (Part I and Part II)
• Tour of Gomathi et al (2007)

Questions and concepts within

• Was Mendel Right? (Part II)
• Pattern matching
• How a protein-centered project might proceed (Part I and Part II)
• How a DNA-centered project might proceed
• Anything from Exam I

...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 and Exam II ground rules.