Re: recessive alleles and eye color

1999-09-14 Thread Tara Kuther
Thanks Jeff-- I had mentioned the caveat that dominant-recessive inheritance is probably an oversimplification, mentioned the idea of polygenic inheritance, and said that I'd return to class with more info. This fits the bill... Thanks again Tara ***

recessive alleles and eye color

1999-09-14 Thread Tara Kuther
Tipsters-- Last night during a discussion of dominant-recessive inheritance in a Child Development course, I used eye color as an example (the classic brown = dominant, blue = recessive). The text mentions that gray, green, blue, and hazel eyes are recessive to brown, prompting a student to ask w

Re: plagiarism/cheating

1999-05-18 Thread Tara Kuther
James S. MacDonall wrote: > > I follow a similar approach. I deduct points for quotations. They > 'can' quote but they do not. I use the same rationale -- I'm grading > them, not the author of the quote. Slowly I'm learning. this semester I spent time discussing plagiarism, doing