Laboratory Schedule

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Date	Lab Topic	Reading	Due this week
Jan 15	Article discussion	Agren and Schemske_1992
Jan 22	Wisconsin Fast Plants (WFP) artificial selection experiment (1): initial set-up	handout
Jan 29	Hardy-Weinberg (HW) equilibrium in Drosophila melanogaster (1): initial set-up	handout (pp 1-4)
Feb 5	WFP artificial selection experiment (2): measure, pollinate WFP; develop secondary research questions	download data, worksheet, and graphing instructions
Feb 12	ForensicEA Simulation: Did the surgeon give hepatitis C to his patient? (1)	handouts and software program	WFP report 1 (mini)
Feb 19	Population Genetics Lab	handouts and software program
Feb 26	HW equilibrium in Drosophila melanogaster (2): data analysis; design 2nd experiment	handout (pp. 4-8); chi-square instructions	Population genetics report (mini)
Mar 5	SPRING BREAK
Mar 12	ForensicEA Simulation: Did the surgeon give hepatitis C to his patient? (2)	handouts and software program	HW report 1 (mini)
Mar 19	WFP artificial selection experiment (3): harvest seeds; plant 2nd generation		ForensicEA report (mini)
Mar 26	Demonstrating strategies for solving prisoner's dilemma (1); design experiment	handout | instructions
Apr 2	WFP artificial selection experiment (4): measure plants, analyze data	handout | data
Apr 9	EASTER BREAK
Apr 16	HW equilibrium in Drosophila melanogaster (3): data analysis	handout	rough draft of WFP report (full)
Apr 23	Field trip to Natural History Museum		HW report 2 (mini)
Apr 30	Demonstrating strategies for solving prisoner's dilemma (2); analyze data	handout
May 4	Prisoner's dilemma report (mini) due (5:00 pm)
May 8	Final draft of WFP report due (5:00 pm)