Molecular Biology

Text Box: Instructor:Dr. Cornelius A. Watson. Office hours: Chicago Campus Room 520A, Schaumburg Campus Room 127B Phone numbers: Chicago 312 341-3678, Schaumburg 847 619-8580. Fax: (312) 341-4358 Email: cwatson@roosevelt.edu Required Primary Text: Molecular Biology, 4th edition, Weaver, R. McGraw-Hill, New York. *Articles from scientific journals and other sources will be used as supplement reading for some topics. PRS clicker unit: Students will be assigned a Personal Response (PRS) clicker unit which should be picked before each lecture on Mondays. This system will allow student to electronically respond to all quizzes and surveys during lectures. The clickers should be returned of each lecture. A fee of $38.00 will be charged if clicked are lost or not returned. USB Memory Stick: It is highly recommended that students purchase a memory stick for storing images from laboratory exercises. Important Internet links: Course Website: http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/ruonline/students.html. Roosevelt University Biotechnology site: http://www.roosevelt.edu/biology/default.htm. Textbook website: www.mhhe.com/weaver4 Objectives: Molecular biology is designed to provide Biotechnology, Biology, Chemistry, and other related majors with theoretical and practical information in recombinant DNA technology. An integrated approach will be used to present the lecture and laboratory assignments. This will allow students to easily make connections between the theoretical and practical aspects of molecular biology. Discussions of the social, medical and economic implications of biotechnology will be conducted. Emphasis will be placed on hands-on experience and discovery-based learning. Students will be strongly encouraged work on their own as much as possible with some supervision from


Text Box: Exams: There will be three exams - two during the semester and one during the finals week. Points awarded for worksheets, online quizzes, and other activities will be equivalent to the total points of a fourth exam. Please take advantage of the opportunity to earn those points. The following point distribution system will be used Item Points Exam 1 100 Exam 2 100 Exam 3 (Final) 100 Laboratory Notebook 20 Reports/Results 80: (Unit II 30, Unit III 30, Unit IV 20) Practicum/Poster (Unit V) 50 Worksheets 50* Presentations/Misc. Points/Quizzes 50** Total (Undergrad) $$ Total (Graduate) ## * May vary depending on number of additional worksheets assigned. ** Points to be given for miscellaneous class and lab activities at the discretion of the instructor $$ Total Score for undergraduates ## Total Score for graduate students Letter grades will be determined using the following scale:


Class Policies: All students are required to turn in assignments on the day that they are due.  Late assignments will

NOT be accepted except in the case of personal emergencies, which should be verified by appropriate supporting

documents.  Any dishonesty, cheating, or plagiarism will result in an F for the assignment.  Plagiarism includes

submitting another student’s work as your own or submitting published material (including the text and laboratory

manual) as your own without attributing the source.  A second occurrence of any type of dishonesty will result in

automatic failure of the course.  The last day you can drop with a W grade is published in the academic

guide. An incomplete (I) will be given only to those students who have received passing grades and have not

completed a small part of the course at the end of the semester. In this case, the student must present a satisfactory

reason for not completing the work within the assigned time period.  Cellular phones and pagers must be set to silent

mode during lecture and laboratory sessions.  Please exit the room to respond to urgent calls.

 

 

Laboratory: Each Biology 353 laboratory session is approximately three hours in length.  Experiments are designed so

 that they can be completed or a suitable stopping point can be reached within a lab period.   Please read the laboratory

exercises before coming to class.  Use your laboratory notebooks to make flow charts of experimental procedures.  In

addition to the flow chart, the laboratory notebook should contain details of the protocol to be followed during the

experiment.  Make sure you include notes on all observations made during the experiments.  Use diagrams where

necessary.  Notebooks will be graded at mid semester and during the final week of lab.  You will be notified one week

before notebooks are due for grading.   The instructor will provide the laboratory manual for the course on the

Blackboard website.   The document will be in Microsoft® Word and PDF formats.  No Printed version of the manual is

available.  Always check the chalkboard for updates or changes to the laboratory protocols as soon as you arrive in the

laboratory.  You and your lab partners may begin working as soon as you arrive in the laboratory. You may then leave

after completing the exercises, cleaning up your work area and checking with the instructor to for any announcements

or other updated laboratory information. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lecture Schedule     

 

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Text Box: FINAL EXAMINATION DATE: TBA


 

Molecular Biology 353/453

 

Laboratory Schedule

 

 

Laboratory Text: Molecular Biology Protocols, Watson, C., Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional Web Resources:

 

www.promega.com/biomath

 

www.promega.com/guides/pcr_guide/default.htm