Dave was the man, though the material takes time to work through, its a very doable class. Dave was very clear cut, concise and knew exactly what he was going to talk about every day. Doug was a bit more scattered, and the exams showed the differences between the two. You either know Dave’s material or you don’t. With Doug, you can know the material and still have difficulty interpreting the point of the question. I learned a lot though. Worth taking.

Idk what the guy below is talking about, but the study questions that they posted were really helpful. They basically told us what was going to be on the test. Just go to office hours, where they go over the study questions, and you'll be fine. Honestly, this was probably the easiest semester of genetics in like the past 7 years. Dave was the man, very knowledgeable and had a nice humor. Doug was also very nice, though I thought his half of the class was less interesting, as he talked more about bioethics. Dave talked more about cellular genetics. All in all, the people that took this semester of genetics lucked out on professors tbh.

Professor Parichy is extremely knowledgeable but his lectures are quite difficult to follow - a bunch of the topics at the beginning of the semester could have used a lot more clarification in lecture than they got, and he seemed to assume we knew a lot more about genetics going into the class going in than we did. Additionally, his study questions were not particularly helpful, and exams often featured several questions regarding specific details from examples in-class. The textbook was only minimally related to the course material and isn't worth buying or renting. I personally found his half of the class a lot harder than Doug's, but your mileage may vary.