Next Tuesday is not only test day, but also Election Day. 31 October Free writing assignment number 7 asked about your knowledge of the Human Genome Project. This raised questions that lead to interesting discussions after last class and since. Here are a couple of websites sponsored by the US government agencies with funding responsibilities for the project. They each have lots of links.
Some stuff is uninteresting because it deals with the mechanics of funding and reporting data.
Change in date of next test. That puts us back to being exactly one lecture behind. So by vote of the class, it was decided today that we would postpone the third exam one period to allow the complete Unit 6 to be presented. All this changes are reflected in the current revision of the on-line syllabus . Amy will not be able to hold the scheduled SI session tonight.