BIOLOGY 2311, Sec 501 INTRODUCTION TO MODERN BIOLOGY FALL 2005

Tuesday and Thursday, 5:30-6:45pm, CN 1.102

Instructor: J.G. Burr (FO 3.714; 883-2508; burr@utdallas.edu)

Office Hours: Wed, Fri, 1-2 pm, or by appointment

Undergraduate Teaching Assistants: Mr. David Do, Ms. Naumi Imtiaz, Mr. Christopher Kinslow, Ms. Negar Rebecca
Moazami
Graduate Teaching Assistant: TBA

Required Text: Biological Science, 2nd Ed., Scott Freeman (2005), Vol. 1
Optional: The Cancer Book, Cooper (1993)

This is the first part of a two -semester lecture sequence of introductory biology. There is a co-requisite workshop, BIO
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2111. All students enrolled in BIO 2311 must also enroll in a BIO 2111 workshop . The grade for BIO 2111 will
be determined by attendance and scores on homework and occasional quizzes, and it will be worth 20% of the overall
grade given for BIO 2301. The same grade will be assigned for both BIO 2311 and BIO 2111. If you withdraw from
BIO 2311, you must also withdraw from BIO 2111.

The course content of BIO 2311 emphasizes introductory biochemistry, genetics and molecular cell biology. In the first
half of the semester, the lectures on these topics will more or less follow the textbook; in the second half of the
semester, we will illustrate the concepts of molecular cell biology by delving more deeply than does your text into the
molecular basis of cancer.

There will be four exams given in BIO 2311. The exam questions will be a combination of multiple-choice plus brief
essay or short-answer questions. Each of the four exams will be worth 20% of the final grade, and each will cover all
of the material presented in class since the previous exam (lectures, handouts, and assigned reading). Your exam
papers will not be returned, but the answers will be discussed in workshop.

Grades and other course information will be posted on the course web page:

(http://nsm1.utdallas.edu/bioweb/courses/syllabifall05.htm) Find BIO 2311, Sec 501 on the list, and click on Burr

DO NOT MISS THE EXAMS. Makeup exams will be given only in case of a documented emergency and will be
MORE DIFFICULT than the regularly scheduled exam. You must contact the Instructor within 24 hours of the missed
exam and schedule a makeup exam to be taken immediately.

The prerequisite for this course is successful completion of General Chemistry I & II; the first semester of organic
chemistry will ordinarily be taken concurrently with BIO 2311.
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Lec Date Subject Assignment

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1. Aug 18 Origin & evolution of life Ch 1

2. 23 Chemistry of life Ch 2
3. 25 Macromolecules Ch 3-5
4. 30 Cell membranes Ch 6
5. Sept 1 Cell structure (1) Ch 7
6. 6 Cell structure (2) Ch 7
7. Sept 8 TEST 1 (Lec’s 1-5)
8. 13 Respiration (1) Ch 9
9. 15 Respiration (2) Ch 9
10. 20 Photosynthesis (1) Ch 10
11. 22 Photosynthesis (2) Ch 10
12. 27 Cell division Ch 11
13. 29 Meiosis Ch 12
14. Oct 4 TEST 2 (Lec’s 6-12)
15. 6 Mendelian genetics (1) Ch 13
16. 11 Mendelian genetics (2) Ch 13
17. 13 DNA synthesis, mutation, repair Ch 14
18. 18 How do genes work? Ch 15
19. 20 Transcription and translation Ch 16
20. 25 Regulation of gene expression Ch 17
21. 27 Cancer: epidemiology Lecture Notes
22. Nov 1 TEST 3 (Lec’s 13-20)
23. 3 Cancer: chemical carcinogenesis (1) Lecture Notes
24. 8 Cancer: chemical carcinogenesis (2) Lecture Notes
25. 10 The role of viruses in cancer: DNA tumor viruses Lecture Notes
26. 15 The role of viruses in cancer: RNA tumor viruses Lecture Notes
27 17 Oncogenes Lecture Notes
28. Nov 22 TEST 4 (Lec’s 21-27)

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Medical Schools and most allied health science programs require (along with other courses) a two-semester sequence of introductory
biology consisting of two 4-hour courses, each of which has a laboratory component, for a total of 8 semester credit hours of lecture plus
laboratory. At UTD, the Biology Department offers two 3-hour lecture courses, Introduction to Modern Biology I and II (BIO 2311, 2312),
with associated 1-hour workshops (BIO 2111, 2112) and a separate 2-hour Introductory Biology Laboratory course (BIO 2281), for a total of
10 SCH of lecture plus laboratory.