BNFO 301 
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Questionnaire on: Flow of Information and BioLingua
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Spring 2005 

I. Basic Information

A. Your name 
II. Structure of DNA
A. How do you feel about your understanding of the structure of DNA, including its directionality? 

B. Do you understand what a DNA palindrome is? Note that palindrome here means something different than it does in street English. 

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

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Comments for II. Structure of DNA:
III. Transcription and Processing of RNA
A. How comfortable are you with the different types of RNA? 

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

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

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

SQ5 SQ6 SQ7 SQ8
Comments for III
Transcription and Processing of RNA
IV. 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:

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V. BioLingua (Introduction)
A. Do you understand the distinction between an atom and a function? 

B. How comfortable are you doing simple arithmetic in BioLingua? 

C. How comfortable are you defining a variable or assigning a new value to it? 
Comments regarding the BioLingua Introduction

V. Put here any miscellaneous comments, questions, suggestions, concerns you may have
 

Thanks!

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