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To avoid copyright infringement, I removed a number of figures from some lectures because they were taken from materials provided by the publisher of a textbook. A number of those figures supposedly described molecular processes using cartoons, but such figures in all textbooks tend to have "junk" detail that is unrealistic but pretty. I think that the extra detail tends to detract from the basic features that students, and teachers, need to know. Consider that when we talk about DNA molecules with each other, we usually use only lines or a string of letters. I recommend drawing your own figures using the simplest kind of objects ... lines, circles, arrows, etc. ... to indicate molecules. For an example, see slide 7 of Sect. 8 which strips lac operon control down to its bare essentials.

The lectures for the genetics course actually cover a bit more than 2/3 of the course as it was taught; the remaining lectures were given by another faculty member. Those lectures covered developmental genetics, human genetic diseases including tumors, and some aspects of genetic technology including cloning, transgenic organisms, and expression profiling.

Links to PowerPoint lectures from undergraduate lecture course Genetics 320 as taught Spring 2007	Links to pdf files of practice problems, quizzes, homework, and exams from lecture course Genetics 320 as taught Spring 2007
Sect1Introduction.ppt Sect2DNA.ppt Sect3DNAReplication.ppt Sect4ManipulatingDNA.ppt Sect5Transcription.ppt Sect6Translation.ppt Sect7Mutation.ppt Sect7Mutation.ppt Sect8RegulationProkaryotes.ppt Sect9RegulationEukaryotes.ppt Sect10AsexReprod&Mitosis.ppt Sect11Sex&Meiosis.ppt Sect12MendelianGenetics1.ppt Sect13.MendGen2Probability.ppt Sect14PedigreeMolecMarker.ppt Sect15Linkage&Recombination.ppt Sect16ChromStructVar.ppt Sect17OrganelleGenetics.ppt Sect18aPopulationGenetics1.ppt Sect18bPopulationGenetics2.ppt Sect19MolecularEvolution.ppt	To be added later.
Links to .pdf files of lecture notes handed out to the students in introductory graduate course in evolution	Links to
MacroevolutionHandout.pdf  LevelsOfSelectionHandout.pdf EvolutionOfSexHandout.pdf SpeciesHandout.pdf	Simulation on web: http://www.biology.arizona.edu/evolution/act/drift/simulation.html Manual simulation: EvolSimDescription.pdf DriftwormsN=5.pdf RandomNumbers1-5.pdf