Seminar two

This afternoon's seminar was about breast cancer and introduced a number of contemporary biological techniques that we will be considering in the bio technology section of the year thirteen course. The discussion questions for seminar two are in the link box on the right.

Monday 26 April

Week two term two, in the closing stages of our gene expression topic looking at interactions of genes. You need to be reviewing the work from the previous term in preparation for the common test.

I find it strange how every so often you will hear a word and then shortly afterwards come across the subject in many different articles. Epigenetics has been such a word for me after the first lenscience seminar. Here are links to some of them:

• Time magazine article
• Epigenetics audio article
• Diagram of epigenetic effects

Wednesday 21 April

This morning we continued with genetics looking at the following activities from the Biozone manual:

• Multiple alleles in blood groups
• Sex linkage
• Sex determination

Monday 19 April

Term Two has begun and in class this morning we looked at linkage and recombination. Tomorrow will be chromosome mapping before carrying on to the genetics problems.

The seminar paper for next week is now out and it is in a link on the side of the page or connect to the Lenscience page.

There are other scholarship related links in the link list on the right.