Reading the course syllabus is optional since there is never any useful information found in syllabi.

I should go to office hours because it is a chance to interact with my instructors and they can help me to learn the material.

When are your problem sets due?

All exams are proctored online and due by _______________ of exam week

The difference between detection and resolution is that you can resolve objects that you cannot detect.

An antiport can be transformed into symport if the orientation of the transporter in the membrane is reversed (i.e. if the portion of the molecule normally exposed to the cytosol faces the outside of the cell instead).

You have identified a novel protein complex that forms a pore across the plasma membrane of a eukaryotic cell. The pore is made of five protein subunits, each of which contributes a membrane-spanning a helix to form the pore. Each a helix has hydrophilic amino acid side chains on one face of the helix and hydrophobic amino acid side chains on the opposite side.What is the likely arrangement of these five a helices in the membrane?

You are in a lab that specializes in microscopy and you are studying breast cancer. Which microscopy technique would you use to perform the following experiments? For each experiment select the best possible technique from the drop-down menu. Use each technique only once. 

Proteins run on SDS-PAGE gels are separated based on their size (mass) because SDS maintains intrinsic charge and beta-mercaptoethanol preserves three-dimensional structure.

There are three exams each worth 75 points.  Together these three exams count for _________ of my grade.