Expirements in Genetics and Evolution: Inheritance in Sexual and Asexual Organisms

这项提议的目的是获得用于基因和蛋白质分析的新设备，从而使乌尔辛斯学院生物系的遗传学课程现代化并重新焕发活力。此外，这些设备将允许在进化论课程中加入更具挑战性的实验，并扩大学生研究的机会。我们将修改和更新遗传学课程的实验室部分，教授不可或缺的遗传学基本原理，并辅以处理遗传学历史的辅助课程，遗传学研究所需的有性生物和无性生物的知识，以及获得从事科学职业所必需的技术和实验设计技能。这些技能将鼓励和更好地为学生进行独立的本科生研究体验做准备，这是生物系希望向所有专业提供的机会。所需的设备将允许我们在遗传学和进化论课程中教授几个新的原理，加强学生研究计划，更好地服务于我们有幸被乌尔辛斯学院吸引到的空前数量的生物专业学生。

The purpose of this proposal is to acquire new equipment for the analysis of genes and proteins, thereby modernizing and revitalizing the Genetics course in the Biology Department at Ursinus College. In addition, the equipment will allow the inclusion of more challenging experiments in the Evolution course, and the expansion of opportunities for student research.We will revise and update the laboratory component of the Genetics course by teaching the indispensable, fundamental principles of Genetics, supplemented by auxiliary lessons which deal with the history of genetics, knowledge of sexual and asexual organisms needed for genetics research, and the acquisition of technical and experimental design skills necessary for careers in science. Such skills will encourage and better prepare students for an independent undergraduate research experience, an opportunity which the Biology Department desires to provide to all majors.The equipment requested will permit us to teach several new principles in our Genetics and Evolution courses, enhance the student research program, and better serve the unprecedented numbers of Biology majors we have had the good fortune to attract to Ursinus College.