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Is this blog going to be closed after this semester?

Possible questions

1. Explain the work of Gregor Mendel. Who was he? Why was he important?
2. Explain how scientists traced the path of humans out of Africa.
3. What's the difference between mtDNA and nuclear DNA?
4. When leaving Africa and going to Europe, what route did humans use and roughly when did they pass points x, y & z?
5. Why did humans take a particular route at a particular time?
6. Why did humans use the southern route out of Africa?
7. Explain how a given human gets their own particular genotype.
8. Summarise the main ideas of the reading.
9. Paraphrase the following sentences: blah, blah, blah
10. what happened at what date?
11. What is the distribution of tone vs. non-tone languages?
12. What is the distribution of the new alleles?
13. What are the two genes in question?
14. What alleles of the genes exist?
15. Why were the geneticists so interested in these two alleles? (3 points)
16. Why were the linguists so interested in these two alleles?

The real Eve

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Exams

The reading exam will be on Friday, Dec 14.
The exam will be similar to past reading tests. There will be one new reading.

The listenting exam will be on Monday, Dec. 17.
For the listening exam, listen to this file and take notes. Give your outline notes to me on Friday. I will tell you if they are OK, or not. If they're OK, I will initial them. On Monday, you can bring in only notes with my initials.
The exam will be similar to past listening tests. There will be one new listening.
These maps will help you understand the listening.
These posts will also help you understand the listening:
here and here

Presentation #2

• Your second presentation will be on Tuesday, December 11.
• The subject is the advertisement analysis that you did in Hamid's class.
• Why did you choose it?
• What are the various aspects of the ad that make it effective? Are there any weaknesses?
• How well are the visual aspects related to the particular product or service?
• So, what general conclusion can you draw?
  
• Please have a copy of the ad that everyone can see. If you need colour, you should probably use the computer or get the copy centre to make a colour overhead copy for you. If black and white is OK, I can make an overhead copy for you. Don't make paper copies for everyone.
  
• You have 3-5 minutes. Practice a number of times before the presentation and check your timing.
  
• Please keep in mind all comments from today's presentations.
• Start preparing for this TODAY.