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BIO3102 Molecular Evolution (Winter term)
Student composition: BioMed (49.14%), BioPharm (25.86%), Biology (9.48%), Biochem (6.03%), Other (9.48%).
Warning: About half of the students who have registered for the course will eventually withdraw. Of the remaining students, about 40% will have a final grade greater than 80, but 10% will fail. If your academic achievement is below the average, then your chance of getting a failing grade in this course is very high unless you attend all classes and study very hard.
For lecture schedule and PPT slides, please access Brightspace
The exam files will be ready for downloading at the scheduled exam time. The URL of the exam files is
https://dambe.bio.uottawa.ca/teach/BIO3102_download/WhatExam/########.xlsx
(where "WhatExam" is either "MockExam", "Midterm1", "Midterm2" or "Final", and "########" is your student ID)
The link for the deferred final exam is the same as that for the final exam.
| Week | Weekday | Topic | Chp |
| 1 | Wednesday | Introduction to BIO3102 | 1 |
| 1 | Friday | Natural selection & three biological processes | 1 |
| 2 | Wednesday | Mutation | 2 |
| 2 | Friday | Mutation, sequence variation and neutral theory | 3 |
| 3 | Wednesday | Sequence evolution and homology identification | 3 |
| 3 | Friday | Sequence alignment | 4 |
| 4 | Wednesday | Substitution model, distance, evolutionary rates | 4 |
| 4 | Friday | Codon-based distance, rates heterogeneity and causes | 4 |
| 5 | Wednesday | Mid-Term Test #1 | |
| 5 | Friday | Molecular Clock | 5 |
| 6 | Wednesday | Reading week | |
| 6 | Friday | Reading week | |
| 7 | Wednesday | Male-driven evolution | 5 |
| 7 | Friday | Molecular phylogenetics: Distance-based method | 5 |
| 8 | Wednesday | Molecular phylogenetics: Distance-based dating | 5 |
| 8 | Friday | Molecular phylogenetics: maximum parsimony | 5 |
| 9 | Wednesday | Molecular phylogenetics: maximum likelihood | 5 |
| 9 | Friday | Dating with no root | |
| 10 | Wednesday | Mid-Term Test #2 | |
| 10 | Friday | Parameter estimation and model selection< | 6 |
| 11 | Wednesday | Origin and evolution of Hawaiian Banza species | 6 |
| 11 | Friday | Origin and evolution of new genes | 6 |
| 12 | Wednesday | Origin and evolution of new genes | 6 |
| 12 | Friday | Good Friday | 7 |
| 13 | Friday | Evolution by transposition | 7 |
| 13 | Wednesday | Genome evolution | 8 |
| 14 | Tuesday | Review Session? | |
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