A reminder that your first exam (worth 15%) is this Thursday in class. It will be open-book, -blog, -notes but will not be collaborative.
To reiterate what I said in class, please prepare by reviewing the central concepts and points from each lecture and from each assigned reading. Since it is open-book the exam will require application and synthesis and not just regurgitation of facts. I encourage you to spend some time with the materials so that you will be efficient with them during the exam.
You will need to review and interpret some of the literature that I reviewed in class, ie the papers that I reviewed in lecture but that we did not discuss in recitation. You will also have to draw figures that illustrate concepts or findings, since a picture is worth 1,000 words.
UPDATE: Here is a link: MLST lab to our MLST laboratory; these will be returned for your reference in the exam.
If you wish to receive any credit for blogs that you have been assigned but not yet completed, Friday 3/12 is your deadline for partial credit. To review, you should have posted on:
1) Sulfolobus and Baas-Becking
2) What the bacterial species concept means to you, esp. in light of MLST
3) Any topic in microbiology for which the species concept matters, to you,
4) Whether experimental evolution (microevolution in the laboratory) can shed light on macroevolutionary phenomena (like the Cambrian explosion)
5) At least 1 comment/post in response to one of your colleagues’ posts
best,
VC
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