HMB265H1F Course Syllabus Fall 2021 PDF

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Welcome to HMB265H1F General and Human Genetics Course Syllabus 2021-2022 Fall Session Course Coordinator: Dr. Maria Papaconstantinou, Human Biology Program Course Instructors: Dr. Naomi Levy-Strumpf, Human Biology Program (Lectures 1-11) Dr. Belinda Chang, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Cell & Systems Biology (Lectures 12-23) Lectures: Tuesdays 3:10 to 5:00 pm* and Fridays 1:10 to 2:00 pm, Online Synchronous. Lectures are synchronous (live with the professor and TAs) via Zoom. Live sessions will be recorded and posted on Quercus. Students will need to use their utoronto email addresses to join the Zoom lectures. *Lecture Review Session/Office Hours: Tuesdays 4:10 to 5:00 pm, Online Synchronous via Zoom. *Midterm Exam—Tuesday, October 19th from 3:10 to 4:20 pm, in person. TA Review Sessions: Fridays 3:10 to 5:00 pm, Online Synchronous via Zoom. Arts & Science Calendar Course Overview [24L, 12T]: An introduction to classical and modern methods of genetic analysis. Topics include Mendelian genetics, the genetics of human populations and disease, genomics, and applications of genetics to human society. Prerequisite: BIO120H1, BIO130H1, (CHM135H1/CHM139H1, CHM136H1/ CHM138H1)/ CHM151Y1 Exclusion: BIO260H1/ BIO207H5 Recommended Preparation: Recommended Co-requisite: BIO230H1/BIO255H1 DR=SCI; BR=4 Technical requirements: Personal Computer: You will need regular access to a computer – preferably a personal computer – with administrator privileges and you should be comfortable managing software and hardware. While much can be done with tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices they are not guaranteed to work in all areas of the course. For an optimal experience you must have a laptop or desktop computer (Windows 10 or higher or Mac OS X 10.14 or higher is recommended). Internet connection: High speed broadband access (LAN, Cable or DSL) is highly recommended for an optimal learning experience. Note, that relying on a library or a café for internet access is not recommended. A Web Browser is required for access to Quercus. In some instances, it may be necessary for some users to upgrade their web browser programs. Supported browsers are Firefox or Google Chrome. A list of supported browsers can be found at https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10461supported-web-browsers. Speaker and Headphones: We will have synchronous (live) online meetings using webinar software. It is preferable to use headphones with an attached microphone for these sessions. Software: Many courses require word processing software (download Office 365 ProPlus). More can be found at https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10721 For Additional Information: https://www.viceprovoststudents.utoronto.ca/covid-19/techrequirements-online-learning/

Course Description: An understanding of genetics is essential for all life science students and is becoming increasingly important for all members of society. This course is designed to give you a solid grounding in genetics. Topics include Mendelian genetics, the genetics of human populations and disease, genomics, and applications of genetics to human society. A variety of activities— lectures, readings, mandatory tutorial quizzes, and assignments—are planned to help you learn the material. To do well in the course, we recommend that you participate fully in all of these activities and that you keep up to date with the material. We hope you enjoy the course. Lecture notes will be posted under Modules before the lecture. Make sure you have a copy of the lecture notes in your possession well before quizzes, the midterm test and the exam in the event of a problem accessing the course website. If you have questions regarding the course material, please post them on the Discussions section of the course website. We encourage students to answer questions too—this is a great way to make sure you understand the material. For questions of an administrative nature unrelated to course content, please post on the Discussions section of the course website under “administrative questions”, or contact Dr. Maria Papaconstantinou via the course administrative email: [email protected]. Required textbook and solutions manual (available at the U of T bookstore); solutions manual only available online via Connect: 1. Goldberg ML, Fischer JA, Hood L and Hartwell LH (2021) Genetics: From Genes to Genomes, 7th edition, McGraw Hill, USA. 2. Goldberg ML, Fischer JA, Hood L and Hartwell LH (2021) Solutions Manual for Genetics: From Genes to Genomes, 7th edition. McGraw Hill, USA. Required Online Participation: Participation is a requirement for this course, and the Quizzical tool that is available on Quercus will be used to encourage students to create and practice multiple choice questions, promoting dialogue amongst peers that can contribute to the mastery of terminology and course material. Students start off by writing their own multiple-choice questions based on course material and receive a grade and feedback on their contributions. When necessary, questions are sent back for editing and resubmitted, and they are then added into the quiz bank if a minimum grade of 3.5 is achieved. Higher marks will be awarded to more creative questions that require critical thinking skills. Students can access this bank at any time to test themselves and prepare for tutorial quizzes and course exams and achieve participation marks while doing so. The participation mark is composed of the two abovementioned components: question composition (5%) and practice quizzes (5%). Thus, your Quizzical participation will count towards 10% of your final grade. In order to receive your participation marks for the question composition component, you must post 1 Question and Answer for 2 assigned lectures. As indicated in the lecture schedule found below, the platform assigns the lecture numbers according to the lecture date. Once you are assigned a lecture, you will have 3 days to submit your question following the assigned lecture, and your question can either be accepted or sent back for revision. Revisions are due within 2 days from the date you received the revision notice. Please review the due dates and times online on Quizzical. Your final assigned mark out of 5 for each submitted question will count toward your final grade, thus you are encouraged to create the best questions possible and revise your questions when prompted to do so, since effective revisions can help you achieve a higher mark.

*To receive full participation marks for the practice quizzes, you have to attempt a minimum of 5 questions per lecture and score a minimum average of 60% per lecture. Practice quizzes are due 12 days after the lecture date. After the 12 days, you can attempt as many practice quizzes as you would like, however, these quizzes would not count toward your participation mark or affect your participation grade. *Late penalties (100%) apply if the Quizzical questions or practice quizzes are not submitted or completed by the due date & time (see page 6 for accommodations). Before you start, be sure to read the student guide: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/technology/quizzical-student-guide A tip sheet on how to write good multiple-choice questions will be posted on the course website under the Quizzical module. HMB265 Lecture Schedule: Date Lecture Topic Number Sep 10 1 The genetics & genomics of human biology Forward Genetics Sep 14 2 Mendelian genetics for single gene traits Sep 17 3 Molecular basis of genetic polymorphisms and the ir Detection Sep 21 4 Pedigree analysis Extensions of Mendelian genetics I – dominance, coSep 24 5 dominance, penetrance, expressivity Sep 28 6 Extensions of Mendelian genetics II – complementation/allelism, epistasis Oct 1 7 Sex-linked traits & chromosomal theory of inheritance Oct 5 8 Linkage & recombination Oct 8 9 Linkage mapping Oct 12 10 Population genetics Oct 15 11 Genomics & Midterm Exam Review Midterm exam (3:10 pm-4:20 pm) Oct 19 Quantitative genetics Oct 22 12 Oct 26 13 Quantitative trait loci Oct 29 14 Genetic mapping & complex traits Reverse Genetics Nov 2 15 Mutation Nov 5 16 Transposable elements Nov 9 Fall Reading Week-No classes Nov 12 Fall Reading Week-No classes Nov 16 17 Large-scale chromosomal changes I Nov 19 18 Large-scale chromosomal changes II Nov 23 19 Epigenetics Nov 26 20 Using genetics to understand development Nov 30 21 Genetics of cancer Dec 3 22 Gene therapy & gene editing Dec 7 23 Final Exam Review *Required pages will be posted in the lecture notes.

Textbook Chapter* 1 1 1, 7, 9, 12 1 2 2, 8 3, 4 3, 5 5 24 10, 25 2, 9 25 12 7, 9 8, 9

14, 15 11, 14 13, 20 22 23 21

Evaluation: Term Mark (60%) 30% Midterm exam (Oct. 19) 10% Tutorials (weekly) 10% Assignment (Nov. 15) 10% Quizzical Participation (starting Sep. 14 and ending Dec. 16) Final Exam (40%) (Final Assessment period) Exams: Multiple choice and short answer questions. Midterm exam: Content: Lectures 2-11 and tutorials 1-4. Date & time & location: Tuesday, October 19th, 3:10 – 4:20 pm, EST, in person. If you miss the midterm exam for a valid reason (see below), within five business days submit the appropriate documentation (see below) online to the Human Biology Office. Final exam: Content: all lectures and tutorials. During the Faculty of Arts and Science Final Assessment Period. Tutorials (Mondays weekly, startin g Sep.20): See below for the pre-tutorial readings and problems for each tutorial. This information, along with the associated lecture material and readings, will form the basis of the quizzes. All the quizzes will be a combination of multiple choice and short-answer questions. The first tutorial (on Sep. 20) is online synchronous, live with the TAs via Zoom. The first tutorial quiz will be synchronous (live), and administered via the Quercus course site starting at 10 minutes past the hour, depending on the tutorial in which you have enrolled. Students will receive an indicated amount of time to complete the quiz online. Students can then discuss the quizzes with the TAs online via Zoom. Subsequent tutorials (starting on Sep. 27) will be held in person. The tutorials will start with a quiz at 10 minutes past the hour, depending on the tutorial in which you have enrolled. Students will receive an indicated amount of time to complete the quiz. Students will subsequently discuss the quiz with the TAs and any other readings/problems. Please attend the tutorial that was assigned to you. If you are not on the class list for that tutorial, you will not be allowed to stay in the tutorial. Students are not allowed to use cell phones, laptops, tablets, textbooks, smart watches, etc. during the quiz. The only aid allowed is a non-programmable calculator that students should bring to every tutorial. There are 10 tutorial quizzes but the total final quiz mark will be scaled out of 9. This means that you may miss one tutorial without penalty. Should you miss more than one tutorial for a valid reason, see the missed tutorial quiz/midterm test policy and follow the procedures outlined there. For up to two missed quizzes (after the first no-penalty missed quiz) the weight of those two quizzes will be redistributed across the other tutorial quiz marks. For more than two missed quizzes, the weight of the missed quizzes will be reweighed into the midterm and/or final exam. Students who only miss one tutorial quiz, even for valid reason, will still start their final quiz mark scaled out of 9. For this reason, it is not necessary to submit documentation for your first missed tutorial quiz (i.e. it will not give you any advantage).

Tutorial Schedule of Assigned Readings and Problems (to be completed before tutorial): Date Number Assignment Sep No tutorial 13 Sep 1 Chapter 1 Problems: 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, and 34 20 Sep 27

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Chapter 1 Problems: 20, 21, 25, 36, 37, 38, 43, and 44 Chapter 2 Problems: 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, and 15

Oct 4

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Chapter 2 Problems: 28, 29, 32, 34, 39, 41, and 48 Chapter 3 Problems: 3 and 17 Chapter 4 Problems: 21, 24, 25, 26, 31, and 32 Chapter 8 problems: 4, 5, 6, and 17

Oct 11 Oct 18 Oct 25

Thanksgiving Day—No tutorial 4 5

Chapter 5 Problems: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 18, 19, 23, 24, 26, 27, and 29 Chapter 24 Problems: 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 19, and 20 Writing in your own words: tutorial to help you write the HMB265 assignment. Assigned readings: i) “How not to Plagiarize” by Dr. Margaret Procter at http://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/using-sources/how-not-to-plagiarize/ ii) “Paraphrasing and Summary” by Jerry Plotnick at http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/paraphrase iii) Parts A and B of the University of Toronto’s Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters. Document linked in tutorial section of the course website. Bring a paper copy of the front page of a primary journal article that you have chosen for the assignment to tutorial. (Quiz on assigned readings and short answer assignment based on a writing assignment using an article)

Nov 1

Nov 8 Nov 15

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Chapter 2 Problems: 35 and 47 Chapter 12 Problems: 36 Chapter 25 Problems: 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, and 32 Fall Reading Week—No tutorial

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Hand in hard copy of assignment. Chapter 8 Problems: 15, 16, 18, and 20 Chapter 9 Problems: 42, 44, and 45 Chapter 14 Problems: 27, 28, and 30 Chapter 14 Problems: 3, 8, 10, 13, 19, 22, and 24 Chapter 15 Problems: 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, and 19 Chapter 4 Problems: 36, 37 and 38 Chapter 20 Problems: 2, 3, and 4 Chapter 22 Problems: 31, 32, 33, 34, and 35 Chapter 21 Problems: 29, 30, and 31 Chapter 23 Problems: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15, and 22

Nov 22 Nov 29

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Dec 6

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Assignment*: submit 2 copies by November 15, 1) A hard copy to your TA before your tutorial begins 2) An electronic copy to Ouriginal.com via Quercus under the “Modules” section before 9 am on the due date *Late penalties (100%) apply if any of the copies are not submitted by the due date & time (see below for accommodations). This course uses Ouriginal. All written assignments will be required to be submitted to ouriginal.com via Quercus. “Normally, students will be required to submit their course essays to the University’s plagiarism detection tool for a review of textual similarity and detection of possible plagiarism. In doing so, students will allow their essays to be included as source documents in the tool’s reference database, where they will be used solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism. The terms that apply to the University’s use of this tool are described on the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation web site (https://uoft.me/pdt-faq).].” Information on how to access Ouriginal for this course will be available on Quercus after the course starts. Put your name, student number, topic and your TA’s name on the first page of your assignment. The assignment must be written in your own words and be done on an individual basis. It cannot contain material submitted for marks in another course. Copying or working closely with others on an assignment is considered plagiarism. This is a serious academic offense. All parties involved will receive a mark of zero for the assignment. In addition, a letter documenting the case of plagiarism will be sent by the Director of the Human Biology Program to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science. This letter becomes part of the student’s academic folder within Faculty of Arts and Science. The Dean will then consider further disciplinary action. Make sure you keep your own work in a secure location and do not share answers with others. Please contact Dr. Maria Papaconstantinou at the HMB265 email at least one week before the assignment due date to request an extension if you have an illness that prevents you from being able to complete the assignment on time. Extensions will not be granted if this step is not followed. Complete the HMB missed assessment form (https://www.hmb.utoronto.ca/missed_assessment). If an extension is granted, the assignment is still due, with a maximum extension of ONE WEEK if the above is followed and the reason validated. Do NOT wait for confirmation from the program office to submit, because confirmation will not come. An extension cannot be made on top of a previously granted extension. Late penalties will apply if an extension is not granted and any of the copies are not submitted by the due date and time—100% deduction per day.

About academic integrity: The University of Toronto treats cases of academic misconduct very seriously. Academic integrity is a fundamental value of learning and scholarship at the UofT. Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in this academic community ensures that your UofT degree is valued and respected as a true signifier of your individual academic achievement. The University of Toronto’s Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters outlines the behaviours that constitute academic misconduct, the processes for addressing academic offences, and the penalties that may be imposed. You are expected to be familiar with the contents of this document. Potential offences include, but are not limited to: In papers and assignments: •Using someone else’s ideas or words without appropriate acknowledgement.

•Submitting your own work in more than one course. •Making up sources or facts. •Obtaining or providing unauthorized assistance on any assignment (this includes working in groups on assignments that are supposed to be individual work). On tests and exams: •Using or possessing any unauthorized aid, including a cell phone. •Looking at someone else’s answers. •Letting someone else look at your answers. •Misrepresenting your identity. •Submitting an altered test for re-grading. Any instance of suspected academic dishonesty will be reported to the Office of Student Academic Integrity. For further information on you may wish to visit https://www.academicintegrity.utoronto.ca/perils-and-pitfalls/ and http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice.

Missed Tutorial Quizzes, Midterm Test and Final Exam policy: This course follows the University of Toronto's Policies on missed tests and quizzes and follows the Human Biology Program's procedures for missed tests and quizzes. Students are expected to follow these policies and procedures as they will be strictly enforced. Please note that this policy applies to everything due in this course. Steps of what to do if you fail to write a quiz or exam for a valid reason only: 1. Fill out the HMB Missed Assessment Form: https://www.hmb.utoronto.ca/missed_assessment • A copy of this form and its details will be emailed to you and to your instructor; this is how you notify your course instructor. 2. Self-declare your absence on ACORN  The HMB program office will ONLY contact you if there is an issue 3. There are no make-up tutorial quizzes in the course, but the tutorial grade will be re-weighted if Steps 1 and 2 listed above are completed. Please note any reweighs will happen at the end of term. 4. For the midterm test, there will be one opportunity for a make-up midterm exam that will be granted to students on Friday, October 29th if Steps 1 and 2 listed above are completed. Please note that the HMB Missed Assessment Form must be submitted within five (5) business dates of the missed test/quiz date. HEALTH & WELLNESS The university experience can be a challenging one, there is no need to go about it alone. If you or anyone you know could use someone to talk to (or text with), here are some resources in addition to your instructors, program coordinators, and TAs: 

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