Disclaimer: Notes, handouts, and/or other supplementary materials are provided as a courtesy to the students, and are not meant to substitute for attending lectures.

Study questions... To further focus your studying, supplementary study questions for each lecture can be downloaded (as PDF files) from the links below. Many of these problems are taken from old exams, and students are encouraged to answer them (in writing!). Student answers will not be handed in for grading.

Study questions in ECB3... Study questions are included in the page margins and at the end of each chapter of ECB3. Students are encouraged to work these problems (write out your answers!) BEFORE consulting the answers at the end of the book.


Lectures 1-2: Introduction to cells, organelles, microscopy...
Lecture 3: Chemistry...
Lecture 4: Amino acids and proteins...
Lectures 5: Lipids, membranes, membrane proteins and transport...
Lecture 6-7: Sugars and polysaccharides, energy and enzymes, glycolysis and the citric acid cycle...
Lecture 8-9: Mitochondria and oxidative phosphorylation, chloroplasts and photosynthesis...
Lecture 10-11: Nucleotides and nucleic acids, DNA structure, organization, replication, and repair...
Lecture 12: Transcription in prokaryotes and eukaryotes...
Lecture 13:Translation and protein folding...
Lecture 14: Molecular biology techniques...
Lecture 15: Gene regulation...
Lecture 16: The evolution of genes and genomes...
Lecture 17: Protein targeting: nuclei, mitochondria, and chloroplasts...
Lectures 18: Protein targeting; membrane and secreted proteins; vesicle traffic...
Lecture 19: Endocytosis and phagocytosis......
Lectures 20-22: The cytoskeleton (IFs, actin, muscle, and MTs)...
Lectures 23-24: The cell cycle and cell division...
Lecture 25: Cell communication and signal transduction...
Lecture 26: Extracellular matrix and cell junctions;Cell renewal and stem cells...
Past exams... Exams from Fall 2007* thru 2010 can be downloaded (as PDF files) from the links below. The questions in these old exams are good examples of questions that might appear on your exams. I encourage you work the problems from past exams in preparation for your exams.

Fall 07*
Fall 09
Fall 10 Exam 1
(0.2 MB)		 Exam 2
(0.7 MB)		 Exam 3
(0.2 MB)		 Exam 4
1.4 MB)

*2007 exams are from the last times I taught Biology 2020.

Answers to a subset of the supplementary questions can be found here...

 

Study questions and past exams...