BIO301
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Halloween 2007 in Bio301

Howell and Mark as Watson and Crick


A monohybrid cross between purebreeding strains of smooth green peas (Kristen) and wrinkled green peas (Hunter), with the resulting F1 generation (Jarrod) and F2 generation (Anne).

Kevin as a pea pod, representing classical genetics



Lindsay as a "jean-ohm" library

 

Brady and Amanda as two versions of the same chromosome, one with a pericentric inversion

 

 


Madison as an mRNA with 5' cap of methylguanosine and a poly-A tail

 

 

Ellen as a mosaic

 

 

Chris as a mRNA (he lost his 5' cap on the way to class)

 

Andy as the headless horseman, with the face of Lamarck (a Frenchman) carved in the pumpkin.

 


Andy explained that Lamarck's ideas about the inheritance of acquired characteristics (including amputated body parts) was wrong.



Elizabeth as a pair of sister chromatids still stuck together at the centromere

 

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