Part I: Basic information

Your name 

Part II: Strategy of Life
1. Do you see how DNA can specify the nature of an organismsimply by specifying when and where specific proteins are present in cells?Chooseone Yes No 

2. Are you comfortable with the notions of hydrophobicity,hydrophilicity, and amphipathicity (though not necessarily with how theterms roll off the tongue)?Chooseone Yes No 

3. Do you see how membranes can self assemble?Chooseone Yes No 

4. Do you understand the relationship between the majorbiological polymers and monomers?Chooseone Yes No 

5. Do you understand how the structure of metabolism enablesus to convert the substance of other organisms into our own substance?Chooseone Yes No 

6. List any topics or study questions in this sectionyou'd like us to go over.

7. Comments/requests on this section? 

Part III: Protein

8. Are you comfortable with what a protein is in chemicalterms?Chooseone Yes No 

9. Do you understand the distinction between the fourlevels of protein structure (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary)? Chooseone Yes No 

10. Do you see how the structure of a protein determinesits function?  Chooseone Yes No 

11. Do you see how the structure of a protein determinesits location?  Chooseone Yes No 

12. Can you make the connection between mutations in DNAand specific types of mutations in protein (and how they can affect proteinfunction?  Chooseone Yes No 

13. List any topics or study questions in this sectionyou'd like us to go over.

14. Comments/requests on this section? 

Part IV: DNA, RNA, and Translation(no notes for this section)
Now that I've made the questions,I must say that I'm not sure how effective such a list is -- how do youknow what level of understanding is appropriate? Nonetheless, here we go.

15. How comfortable are youwith the structure of DNA? SelectVerycomfortableModerately comfortableSomewhatcomfortableNot comfortable
     (e.g. nature of base ratios, 3-dimensional structureof DNA)

16. How comfortable are youwith how DNA is replicated? SelectVerycomfortableModerately comfortableSomewhatcomfortableNot comfortable
     (e.g.semiconservative replication, requirement for primer)

17. Do you understand the rolesof the three major types of RNAs - mRNA, rRNA, tRNA? Chooseone Yes No 

18. Can you effectively use the genetic code to predictfrom a DNA sequence (and a given start site) the amino acid sequence ofa protein? Choose one Yes No 

20.Comments/requests on this section? 

Part V: Problem Sets
21. Comments, concerns, questions about Communal problem set? Which ones are causing difficulties?

22. Comments, concerns, questions about Molecular Biology problem set?

Part III: Miscellaneous
23. Progress on What is a Gene? 

24. Comments, concerns, questions? (e.g. is this too much?)