BISC219/F11: Assignment Series2 Outline Summary

Assignment Series 2 Outline & Summary
Please construct a complete yet concise statement of the overall topic of investigation in Series 2 and the experimental question & goals of this classical (forward) genetics approach to understanding the structural and functional relationship between a gene and the product it encodes.

Construct and outline the entire experimental approach to achieving the our experimental goals in Series 2, including all of the following parts to our project: describing the mutant phenotype compared to wild type, linkage analysis, mapping the mutation's location to a chromosome and gene, complementation analysis and what it will tell you, defining the gene sequence change responsible for the gene product change that is associated with the functional defect in the mutant through DNA sequence analysis and comparison with wild type gene sequence, and bioinformatics using Wormbase or other BLAST bioinformatics to determine whether or not the mutation is new or previously characterized and to predict the significance of the mutation in C. elegans and in other species through a search for homologs. This outline can be done in outline form or as a flow-diagram. 

Please use your outline to compose a 1-2 page summary in prose of how you will determine the exact location of a gene responsible for a particular mutant phenotype including finding the exact sequence change that is likely to be responsible and including the significance of the change in C. elegans and in other species. Note that this summary should NOT be a detailed list of exactly what you DO in lab in chronological order, but should, instead, be a brief summary of each part of the work that is included in our project. Imagine yourself trying to explain your project to someone who knows nothing about C. elegans genetics or about these mutant phenotypes.

Grading Rubric
Assignment Lab 2– 10 points