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Tuesday is a Monday Schedule Next Week
Next week my Monday classes will be taught on Tuesday the 17th, thus my Tuesday class will have two homework assignments due on the 24th. However, if Tuesday students want the first assignment graded earlier they can leave it in my box in BRB 507. If you go this route just be sure to put your section number in an obvious place.
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February 15th, 2009 - 21:14
Hi Nick,
I realize that I’m being geeky, but I have a crazy weekend next week so I wanted to get my stuff out of the way first. I have a few questions about the problems assigned for this week.
Firstly, in 6.27, the complementary base pairing that they give in the solution manual is completely skewed! None of the explanations that they give seem to have CG, TA pairing.
And for part II of the homework, for question 1 (its actually #3 of the social and ethical questions, p114), I don’t know how I could extrapolate the information of the proportion of XYY males being higher in the study than in the general population to make an ethical argument for or against screening babies. I don’t need an answer, but just a hint as to how I could go about using this information.
thanks!
February 17th, 2009 - 15:58
Yi-Jang,
Sorry for the excessive delay. I didn’t actually get your message until yesterday afternoon.
part a.) the solutions manual is off by two basepairs.
part b.) “…I don’t know how I could extrapolate the information of the proportion of XYY males being higher in the study than in the general population to make an ethical argument for or against screening babies..”
Excellent point. Talk about this! Is it legitimate to extrapolate? Why or why not? Don’t worry, there are NO right answers to this question.