EE BIOL 121
Molecular Evolution
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2025: 1 lecture and 9 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
3.97
Average grade awarded in EE BIOL 121. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
98%
of the 457 letter grades
D, F or W
0.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 457 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.73 to 4.00.
Historical grades for KNOWLES, BEN, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 240 · 52.5%
- A 203 · 44.4%
- A- 6 · 1.3%
- B+ 4 · 0.9%
- B 2 · 0.4%
- B- 1 · 0.2%
- F 1 · 0.2%
Percentages are of the 457 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
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| KNOWLES, BEN reviews ↗ | 3.97 | 3.97 | 457 | 5 | 98% | very light | Closed by the department |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- 1 exam, said by 3 reviewers
- 4 quizzes, said by 4 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
- 6 group works, said by 2 reviewers
Read from 30 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before EE BIOL 121. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for EE BIOL 121 in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for LIFESCI 23L, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Life Sciences 3, 4, and 23L, or 7A and 23L. Molecular biology, with emphasis on evolutionary aspects. DNA replication, RNA transcription, protein synthesis, gene expression, and molecular evolution. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 10 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 MWF 9:00am-9:50amClosed by the department3.97predicted, this instructor · 457 grades
179 enrolled -
not checked yet9 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (9)
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Dis 1A
F 8:00am-8:50am · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A56
Closed by the department19 enrolled
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Dis 1B
F 10:00am-10:50am · Rolfe Hall 3108
Closed by the department19 enrolled
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Dis 1C
F 11:00am-11:50am · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A56
Closed by the department21 enrolled
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Dis 1D
F 12:00pm-12:50pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A56
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Dis 1E
R 8:00am-8:50am · Boelter Hall 5252
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Dis 1F
R 9:00am-9:50am · Boelter Hall 5252
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Dis 1G
R 2:00pm-2:50pm · Boelter Hall 5436
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Dis 1H
R 3:00pm-3:50pm · Boelter Hall 5436
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Dis 1I
R 4:00pm-4:50pm · La Kretz Hall 101
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 39 and 179 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 179 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking EE BIOL 121 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2025
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Knowles, B. · 179 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 179 seats.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.