EEB/MCB 320H

Assignment for Monday, 22 November 1999

READ (in the designated order):

Sawyer et al. (1997). Natural variation in a Drosophila clock gene and temperature compensation. Science 278:2117-2120.


WRITE:

  1. Identify one major experimental observation in THAT paper.

  2. What question/hypothesis was it intended to answer/test?

  3. What is the interpretation of the data (i.e., what conclusion or new hypothesis is suggested by the data)?

  4. What additional question is raised by the new findings? How would you test that question experimentally?