bio125, March 17, review midterm, basic R program

Section 1:
Students worked on midterm as a huge group. It was a very active discussion.

#3 nucleotide
#7 nucleotide
#16 RE
#18. Ecoli and NER.
#38 PCR
#24 MSH2

Bad questions in the midterm exam
#17 agarose gel, bad question

#20, a terribly madeup question on MSH2. ambiguous.

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Ask students to leave anonymous notes on paper.

Section 2:
Ask students to leave anonymous comments and write down questions that they want to go over.
In 30 minutes, 4 students finished the closed book exam.
Students in Section 2 basically sat at their desk and worked only with their own partners. Most of them still get 100% eventually.


Common mistakes in ApE
Chose linear for plasmids or chose circular for PCR fragments.
Mixed up protein, DNA, or RNA sequences



Skipped:
Basic R programming, loop usage