BIOL-3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stanley Miller, Sporopollenin, Human Reproduction
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Your exam will consist of 30-40 short answer, multiple choice and simple drawing questions based on all lectures through september 13 and all readings through chapter 4. Below is an outline of topics and terms with which you should be familiar, as well as 10 sample questions. This guide highlights important topics which will likely be on the exam; it is not a comprehensive list of all potential topics. At low temperatures, this gene is chemically modified at a slow but steady rate such that its expression is gradually turned off. We call this process "epigenetic silencing," and it occurs one cell at a time throughout the winter, until in the springtime all of the break genes in all of the cells are silenced, and flowering can proceed. Because the silencing builds up over time and is not reversed by warm temperatures, this process constitutes a form of long-term memory.
