2008
       Biological Simulation Techniques: Advanced Exercises


Below is a list of textbook exercises that are considered to be more difficult
than the average.

 1. You may attempt to complete these exercises at any time, ignoring chapter
    deadlines.  For example, even though the deadline for submitting exercises
    from Chapter 8 has passed, you may submit Exercise 8-6 at any time before
    the final class deadline for exercise submission.

 2. Any particular exercise on the list can be attempted by only one or maybe
    two persons in the class.  So, to avoid duplication, if you wish to attempt
    an exercise on the list, you should reserve the exercise for yourself by
    sending an email note to the instructor: rekeen@mtu.edu.

 3. In other words: do not submit any of these exercises unless you first have
    approval of the instructor.

 4. A 24-hour turnaround for a yes/no response to emailed permission requests
    is promised.

 5. Submit the advanced exercises in the usual way, with appropriate
    attachments.

 6. The advanced exercises will be graded in the usual way, and returned if
    unsatisfactory.  However, because these exercises are more difficult,
    submissions returned as unsatisfactory may be resubmitted for full credit,
    not the usual 75%.

 7. Deadlines for Advanced Exercises:  If your advanced exercises are submitted
    any time before 24 April 2008, they will be graded in the usual way and
    returned if unsatisfactory.  If submitted after 24 April and before 30 April,
    your submission will be graded and will receive some partial credit if
    unsatisfactory.


            List of Advanced Exercises in Textbook
 
 8-6  Greens and Blue-Greens 6       20-4  Stochastic Growth I    5
 8-7  Toxic Inhibition       4       20-5  Stochastic Growth II   6
                                     20-6  Stochastic Growth III  4
 9-5  Deer Hunting           7       20-7  Genetic Drift          4
 9-6  North Sea Haddock      6       20-8  Stochastic Weather     4
 9-7  Flour Beetles          4       20-9  Random Selection       10

10-8  Competitive Selection  10      21-2  Probabilistic Enzymes  5 
                                     21-3  Transition Matrix      4
11-5  Limiting Light         6       21-4  Markovian Wolves       5
11-6  Photosynthetic Rates   6       21-5  Stochastic Bull        6
11-7  Algal Photosynthesis   3
11-8  Daily Photosynthesis   5       22-2  Mass Action Reaction   6
                                     22-3  Rate Law               5
12-6  Tetrahymena            4       22-4  Yates-Pardee           5
12-7  Logan's Model          8       22-5  Phosphofructokinase    5
12-8  Development Duration   7       22-6  Two-stage Uptake       4
12-9  Stratified Lake        7       22-7  Uptake Inhibition      2
                                     22-8  Mouse Cell Growth      6
13-7  Planktonic Food Chain  8       22-9  Gene Repression        4
13-8  Modified Food Chain    1       22-10 Stochastic Operon      7
                                    
15-3  Linear Liver: 6 Compts 5       23-1  Algal Filament Growth  3
15-3  Linear Liver: 6 Compts 5       23-2  Cyanobacteria Growth   6
15-4  Calcium Metabolism     5       23-3  Sunflower Growth       3
15-4  Calcium Metabolism     5       23-4  Morphogen Gradient     5
15-6  Aortic Segment         8       23-5  Hydra Transplant       6
                                     23-6  Morphogen Pattern      7
16-5  Leslie Matrix          6      
                                     24-1  General Epidemic       3
17-5  Human Heat Stress      5       24-2  Epidemic Curve         3
17-6  Cooling a Bat          4       24-3  Analytical Epidemic    2
17-7  Testosterone Cycles    6       24-4  Gonorrhea Epidemic     4
17-8  Castrated Human        2       24-5  Threshold Effects      3
                                     24-6  German Measles         4
18-7  Random Numbers I       4       24-7  Periodic Rubella       3
18-8  Random Numbers II      7       24-8  Rabid Foxes            5
18-9  Random Numbers III     5       24-9  2-D Diffusion          7
18-10 Poisson Tests          8       24-10 Spatial Epidemic       10

19-2  Diversity Index        6
19-3  Spatial Distribution   8
19-6  Random Carp Survival   4
19-7  Mark and Recapture     6