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2008
Biological Simulation Techniques: Text Exercise Point Values
# Exercise title pts # Exercise title pts
1-1 Bacterial Growth: Table 1 13-1 Silver Springs 6
1-2 Bacterial Growth: Graph 1 13-2 Succession 2
1-3 Phosphorus-32 Decay 1 13-3 Nonlinear S. Springs 2
1-4 Chironomid Drift 1 13-4 Global Carbon 7
1-5 Bythograea Density 1 13-5 Forest Destruction 1
1-6 Cooling of Corpse 1 13-6 Fossil Fuel Usage 3
1-7 Passive Diffusion 1 13-7 Planktonic Food Chain 8*
1-8 Buglossidium Growth 1 13-8 Modified Food Chain 1*
1-9 Limited Growth 1
1-10 2nd-Order Reactions 2 14-1 Simple Diffusion 3
14-2 Linear Diffusion 5
2-1 Michaelis-Menten 1 14-3 Osmotic Pressure 4
2-2 Wolf-Moose Predation 1 14-4 Countercurrent Flow 6
2-3 Formic Acid Titration 2 14-5 Active Transport 3
2-4 Enzyme-pH Curve 2
2-5 Derive pH Equation 2 15-1 Single Compartment 2
2-6 pH Equation Program 2 15-2 Linear Liver: 2 Compts 3
2-7 Allosteric Enzyme 2 15-3 Linear Liver: 6 Compts 5*
2-8 Fitness of Prey 2 15-4 Calcium Metabolism 5*
15-5 Simple Fluid Flow 3
3-X Any Exercise 1 15-6 Aortic Segment 8*
(6 points maximum)
16-1 Silver Springs Matrix 5
4-1 BASIC Tests 1 16-2 Linear Liver Matrix 5
4-2 Flowchart of Ex. 1-3 1 16-3 Nonlinear S. S. Matrix 3
4-3 Flowchart of Ex. 1-5 1 16-4 4-Compartment Matrix 5
16-5 Leslie Matrix 6*
5-1 Euler Plot 2
5-2 Euler Table I 3 17-1 Respiratory Control 3
5-3 Euler Table II 1 17-2 Thyroid-Pituitary 4
5-4 Improved Euler 3 17-3 Feeding of Rats 5
5-5 4th-Order Runge-Kutta 3 17-4 Body Temperature 3
5-6 Timing 4th-order R-K 6 17-5 Human Heat Stress 5*
5-7 Bimolecular R-K 3 17-6 Cooling a Bat 4*
17-7 Testosterone Cycles 6*
6-1 Bimolecular Reactions 3 17-8 Castrated Human 2*
6-2 Equilibrium I 2
6-3 Equilibrium II 6 18-1 Flipping a Coin 2
6-4 Sequential Reactions 4 18-2 Chi-Square Coin Flips 2
6-5 Chance-Cleland 4 18-3 Throwing Dice 3
6-6 Autocatalytic Reaction 3 18-4 Stochastic Decay 4
6-7 Chance-Cleland Mod. I 3 18-5 Monohybrid Cross 3
6-8 Chance-Cleland Mod. II 4 18-6 Dihybrid Cross 3
18-7 Random Numbers I 4*
7-1 Logistic Growth 3 18-8 Random Numbers II 7*
7-2 Logistic Growth Rate 3 18-9 Random Numbers III 5*
7-3 Logistic Lags 2 18-10 Poisson Tests 8*
7-4 Varying Capacity 3
7-5 Simple Harvesting 3 19-1 Ecological Sampling 4
7-6 Predator-Prey Cycles 3 19-2 Diversity Index 6*
7-7 Timing of Cycles 3 19-3 Spatial Distribution 8*
7-8 Modified Predator 3 19-4 Random Radishes 4
7-9 Isoclines 3 19-5 Normal Distribution 4
7-10 Competition 6 19-6 Random Carp Survival 4*
19-7 Mark and Recapture 6*
8-1 Nutrient Uptake 3
8-2 Chemostat I 3 20-1 Random Walk in 1-D 4
8-3 Chemostat II 3 20-2 2-D Brownian Motion 2
8-4 Limiting Nutrients 4 20-3 2-D Random Diffusion 3
8-5 Identifying Limits 3 20-4 Stochastic Growth I 5*
8-6 Greens and Blue-Greens 6* 20-5 Stochastic Growth II 6*
8-7 Toxic Inhibition 4* 20-6 Stochastic Growth III 4*
20-7 Genetic Drift 4*
9-1 Sowbug Age-Classes 2 20-8 Stochastic Weather 4*
9-2 Stable Sowbugs 2 20-9 Random Selection 10*
9-3 Logistic Sowbugs 3
9-4 Human Females 4 21-1 Markovian Predation 3
9-5 Deer Hunting 7* 21-2 Probabilistic Enzymes 5*
9-6 North Sea Haddock 6* 21-3 Transition Matrix 4*
9-7 Flour Beetles 4* 21-4 Markovian Wolves 5*
21-5 Stochastic Bull 6*
10-1 Hardy-Weinberg 2
10-2 Heterozygote Selection 2 22-1 Glycolysis 8
10-3 Partial Dominance 1 22-2 Mass Action Reactions 6*
10-4 Balanced Mutation 1 22-3 Rate Law 5*
10-5 Sex-Linked Recessives 3 22-4 Yates-Pardee 5*
10-6 Inbreeding 3 22-5 Phosphofructokinase 5*
10-7 Immigration 2 22-6 Two-stage Uptake 4*
10-8 Competitive Selection 10* 22-7 Uptake Inhibition 2*
22-8 Mouse Cell Growth 6*
11-1 Annual Light 2 22-9 Gene Repression 4*
11-2 Daily Light 2 22-10 Stochastic Operon 7*
11-3 Light Reflection 4
11-4 Light in Water 3 23-1 Algal Filament Growth 3*
11-5 Limiting Light 6* 23-2 Cyanobacteria Growth 6*
11-6 Photosynthetic Rates 6* 23-3 Sunflower Growth 3*
11-7 Algal Photosynthesis 3* 23-4 Morphogen Gradient 5*
11-8 Daily Photosynthesis 5* 23-5 Hydra Transplant 6*
23-6 Morphogen Pattern 7*
12-1 Oregon Forest 2
12-2 Homogeneous Lake 4 24-1 General Epidemic 3*
12-3 Thirsty Camel 5 24-2 Epidemic Curve 3*
12-4 Optimum Temperature 3 24-3 Analytical Epidemic 2*
12-5 O'Neill Model 2 24-4 Gonorrhea Epidemic 4*
12-6 Tetrahymena 4* 24-5 Threshold Effects 3*
12-7 Logan's Model 8* 24-6 German Measles 4*
12-8 Development Duration 7* 24-7 Periodic Rubella 3*
12-9 Stratified Lake 7* 24-8 Rabid Foxes 5*
24-9 2-D Diffusion 7*
24-10 Spatial Epidemic 10*
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* Exercises indicated with asterisks may be completed only as "advanced
exercises" by reservation
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