Good teacher. Very monotone. Material is interesting but often very dry. Do every problem you possibly can and you're golden. Try to get Daryl Taketa for your TA, he is a great teacher and gives useful extra problems in section. Great exposure to concepts in 101B.

His teaching style is incredibly boring. I was excited to take this class, but it was so hard to listen to him at 8am and I started not going to class. You NEED to go to his class and do the reader problems to do well in this class. The TAs seem to know more than Thrower does.

He's nice as a person. But lectures are so boring. Definitely doesn't invoke any interest in the subject matter. I made the mistake of not doing CLAS. Bad choice. Tests are pretty hard and not much of a curve. A lot of memorization. Especially mutation recognitions toward the end of the class things get a little hectic so beware

He would keep finding mistakes in the tests WHILE WE WERE TAKING THE MIDTERM AND FINAL!!! so ppl would spend time on a question.. then he changes the numbers during the test... and does it again... its awful... he needs to proofread beforehand but he's too lazy to do it! very nice but awful lecturer!!!

only necessary to go for iclicker points. Just go to CLAS to learn it. the information is merely presented and not taught. but office hours are really nice. he has alot of them compared to other professors. and hes really nice. look at all his cool Carnivorous plants :)

Great professor! I did study a lot for this class, especially because it was only 6 weeks long. Not too hard if you take CLAS with Emily who's very helpful and funny. The tests were at times difficult but fair if you study.

took in summer, very fast, midterms and final are hard. even with knowing all the material, questions can be hard and confusing. nice in OH. definitely do CLAS. extra credit clicker questions which help, curved a lot

Dr. Thrower is awesome! He's a fantastic professor and really funny! His tests are difficult but that's just the nature of the subject. If you go to lecture and take CLAS you'll do fine. Definitely not an easy A.

Awesome professor, make sure you do the problem sets he gives you--they are like the tests.

Super awesome prof, i would say one of the best in MCDB dept. Super clear, go to his office hours, he might give you a nice rec letter too. Thanks prof Thrower

One of the best professors I have had so far! If you go to his office hours he takes the time to make sure you understand the concepts. Do all of the reader problems and you will do great in the class :)

very very nice guy. willing to help when you go to office hours. the material isn't too hard if you do all the problem sets. unfortunately he doesn't go over problems in lecture, and CLAS is a must. he does tend to put people to sleep in lecture.

Great Prof, very helpful, super organized and clean with notes, go to his office hours, study notes over an over and do reader probles, and you own...

good teacher, easy to follow. Overall great guy. had him for mcdb101a thought it was hard but did well. Had him for mcdb135, loved the class, he's a great teacher if you ignore his monotone voice, he really tries to help you out, especially if you go to his office hours. his tests are difficult, but just study your notes and you'll be fine.

very organized with his lecures, notes and tests, very helpful in office hours. straight forward and fun classes overall.

took it during summer... not as easy as u think. but he's one of the nicest and classiest science professor for sure.

although a very nice professor, do NOT take him for summer. He doesn't go over problems in class so you must always look outside for explanation and he doesn't always follow his study guides. I don't know how he is during regular quarters..

Can you say jetlag, .....thats all

He is a good professor. He presents the info for the class in a very clear and easy to understand way. He gives review pages before midterms which help a lot.

nice guy and pretty good teacher

Very nice, and helpful. Kinda cute too!

Don't understand people giving a prof bad reviews because the class is hard. Yes, you have to memorize everything from the lectures for the exams--Thrower was very clear about that and the tests were not unreasonable if you actually went in with that expectation imo.

This class was extremely tough. You basically have to have EVERY single part of each lecture slide memorized even the tiniest of details. The tests were fair but had details on them that you wouldn't even think to study. Don't take this class if you can't get through extremely dense lecture videos that have a lot of pauses and are convoluted.

Just an overwhelming class with so much content thrown at you. didn't enjoy paying for SmartBook access and it not being useful for my studying at all. Prepare for big point FRQs on concepts from lecture slides that you felt you could lowkey gloss over (you can't). Experienced grading errors too so check your work vs the keys & get your points lol!