Practice Test Questions - (Jan/30/2006 )
Everyone,
I'm currently taking an undergraduate Genomics course and have a midterm coming up. I'm really trying hard in this class. But I've to face the reality that this is a tough course.
I really like the material and want to do my best in the class.
Can someone please point out some sources for practice test questions?
The course is really designed for the student to think about each strategy and choose the best one. The exam questions are expected to be like that also.
I've studied the material already but will definetely feel more comfortable with practicing some test questions.
The material we've covered in the class is stuff such as: (1) which vectors to select, (2) radiation hybrid, restriction enzyme, STS, EST maps, (3) subtraction and normalization, (4) construction of cDNA and genomic libraries
I'm not even looking for the answers. Just the questions.
I would appreciate any help.
Thank You
any annals of our course and exercise books will do the job. I don't see where is the pb... 
Unfortunately, the book we were assigned doesn't have any problems for us to work on. And the other books I've tried to reference usually have questions related to just molecular bio.
And the way this class is designed is for us to think about some hypothetical situation where we have to think about which vectors for cloning are more suitable and explain why.
And also, before sequencing, how would we go about creating a genome map.
Basically stuff like that. I like the way the course is structured. I think by the end of it, the student will have thought of all the key things before diving into a genomics project.
Right now, I'm just hoping I can work out some practice questions...
you can read papers in pubmed by searching genome map
well, I'm thinking you have already written a few questions for yourself...
for example, you can make them up; just extrapolate from the lectures.
i.e. "i've got a gene in organism X that I want to express in organism Y. a. what factors are involved in choosing a vector? b. write up a basic protocol for this goal, start-to-finish"
so, for a, you list everything you can think of, like organism characteristics, whether you want the protein tagged, things to consider when designing primers if you want your clone in-frame, signal sequences and post-translational processing if you are looking at eukaryotes, all these sorts of things. for b., you write up a reasonable protocol with some potential stumbling blocks or anticipated problems
anyways, I've pulled this out of the air but do you see how you could make your own questions? just try not to limit the scope. the more open-ended they are, the more your brain will have to stretch and the more ready you will be for questions you get in class
i totally like fred's idea about using pubmed, too...pubmed is your friend...and fred is awesome