BIO233, ch8, gene regulation, lac operon, 20141007Tue, Brock 13th edition

10 minutes, Input results to googleDoc master sheet.

5 minutes, Go over exercises

Play-dough group exercise. (mark pens, pencils)
30 minutes, Playdough on major groove, toothpicks as basepairs. The major groove become obvious in the model. 

1 hour: Lac operon.  The class worked through 3 lac operon problems. 

Questions can be designed for CAPbinding site or CAP or lacXYZ genes, such as frameshift. Frameshift in the one protein should not cause frame shit mutations in other genes in the same operon.

Mutation

Spring 2014 video recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzmGJgmrSQU