The grade is almost entirely determined by four exams that go into depth on the molecular bio of genetic processes.

The professor's accent and poor English skills can make the lectures difficult and frustrating to listen to. I had to go back to the zoom transcripts after each lecture to piece together what he was saying throughout the lectures.

Do not take this course expecting it to be a fun elective that you may complete casually or simply for the sake of learning interesting information. Of the 300 available points, 250 are vested in the three material-dense Honorlock exams; mess them up, and you are all but condemned to GPA conflagration. Steer clear of this unexpectedly difficult course if you aren't pre-medical and/or have a knack for rigorously studying the ins and outs of genetic processes.

The most interesting and less memorization-heavy chapters of the textbook, e.g., epigenetics and population genetics, are not assessed in any form. Instead, the curriculum principally concerns itself with replication, transcription, translation, mitosis, meiosis, gene repair, and gene expression; but these are not explored elementarily, far from that, they are covered in a fashion substantially more in-depth than what would be found in, for example, an introductory course, which caught me off guard. You will be memorizing several intricate steps and terms, which is a massive time sink, not necessarily a problem in and of itself, but is made so by the dry and unapologetically plain presentation of the concepts. The repressive flagging of any kind of movements whatsoever during testing by Ho...read more

In my opinion, his additional materials do not provide a useful, complementary backdrop to the topics covered in the textbook. He will occasionally provide an exam clue every now and then, but it is not sufficiently numerous, rendering the sheer breadth and depth of the exams a formidable challenge.

Workaholics in biology and medicine will enjoy this course, I'm positive. As to an unsuspecting Joe thinking this to be a manageable synopsis for non-specialists, I am not at all bullish.