Title: LAB- Sickle Cell Alleles
Course: BIO-182 RTZ > Section: Week 2 - Phylogenetic Trees

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Once you've registered with SimUText, look for the lab titled "Sickle Cell Alleles" and complete the following activities. All answer are recorded in a separate program which I will see and use to assign a grade in Canvas. There is no need to submit anything through Canvas for this activity.  Printing a copy of the workbook (see "go to" button at bottom left of screen) is optional but there are 46 pages to the workbook; you won't need them all. :-)

TO DO:

- Section1: Sickle Cell Disease and Malaria. In this activity you investigate the connection between malaria and sickle-cell disease by tracking allele and genotype frequencies of the Hb gene in African Villages. Work through this activity and answer the question you encounter along the way.

- Section 2: The Interplay of Evolutionary Forces. In this activity, you examine the effect of introducing a new allele into a population and genetic drift.  This section is OPTIONAL.

- Section 3: Making Predictions: Hardy and Weinberg. The Hardy-Weinberg equation lets you generate and test hypotheses about evolution.  Work through the activities and answer all the questions you encounter along the way.

- Section 4: On Your Own. Open-ended simulations: a virtual playground. This section is OPTIONAL.

- Section 5: Graded Questions: Answer all questions (#49 – 58)