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Your Second Term assignment for your IRP can be downloaded here. You and the person or people with whom you will do your IRP will need to schedule a 10-minute meeting with Ms. DR. Check the sign up sheet on GoogleDocs.
Homework for Week of 11/7
Your Second Term assignment for your IRP can be downloaded here. You and the person or people with whom you will do your IRP will need to schedule a 10-minute meeting with Ms. DR. Check the sign up sheet on GoogleDocs.
Monday 11/7
Read Chapter 12 to solidify your knowledge of cell cycle regulation.
Read for the gist of Chapter 11. Focus on key concepts and figures. Look at review questions, and if you have time, use the CD-ROM activity animations to help you visualize cell-signaling and signa transduction. (Click on the "CampbellBiology. html icon on the disc, then choose Chapter 11. Click on "Activites" on the menu bar on the right.)
Tuesday 11/8
Osmosis Lab in class.
Wednesday 11/9
Day II of osmosis lab. Mae sure you record your data on the class data table.
In preparation for Wednesday's test, make sure that at a minimum, you can speak and write intelligently about the answers to all of the essential questions for the Cell Unit (chapters 7,8,11,12). Review Cell organelle powerpoints I and II, and the Membrane powerpoint.
Friday 11/11
NO SCHOOL
Homework for Week of 11/14
Monday 11/14
Mitosis Lab in class.
Tuesday 11/15
Signal transduction in class. This is your last chance to ask questions before the cells test tomorrow.
Wednesday 11/16
CELLS UNIT TEST
Friday 11/18
Begin reading chapter 9. No worries. No quiz... yet.
Homework for Week of 11/21
Monday 11/21
Bring Your Textbook to Class!
In class: Peer to Peer Teaching Jig-Saw on Cellular Respiration (chapter 9) Download the activity and your assigned groups.
Osmosis Lab write-up (informal) due.
Tuesday 11/22
No F-Block today.
Wednesday 11/23
NO CLASS: Have a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving!
Friday 11/25
NO SCHOOL
Homework for Week of 11/28
NOTE: Make an
appointment with Ms. DR to give a progress report for your independent project!
Due date for Term II part of the project is
Monday, January 9, 2011.
Monday 11/28
Tuesday 11/29
Cellular Respiration pre-lab questions.
In class: cellular respiration lab
Wednesday 11/30
Cellular respiration post-lab questions due.
Make sure you sign up on GoogleDocs for an appointment to talk about your Term II IRP!
Friday 12/2
Wrap up Cellular Respiration. Make sure you are well -versed in the material in chapter 9.
Homework for Week of 12/5
Monday 12/5
Think very clearly about how you might investigate the effect of a variable on photosynthesis. Prepare a preliminary experimental design.
Tuesday 12/6
Read pages 176-184.
Wednesday 12/7
Reading pp. 184-194
Photosynthesis lecture and Lab Bench chromatography in class.
Apropos of nothing we've done so far, but an awesome use of graphics and the interface of history and human biology, check this out. It's really worth 4 minutes of your time!!
Friday 12/9
Photosyntheskits performed. Be prepared for a quiz on chapter 10.
Homework for Week of 12/12
Monday 12/12
Cellular Respiration Lab write-up due. Remember that if you do an informal lab, you still need to include a formalized presentation of your data! (i.e. include beautiful tables and graphs, with figure legends, as appropriate to the investigation.)
In class, make sure you have finalized your group's photosynthesis experimental design. Be sure you have all of the materials you will need to test the variable of your choice.
G-block: take-home photosynthesis quiz.
Tuesday 12/13
Photosynthesis Lab in class.
Take a look at the CR&P Review.
Read this short article to give you some insights into one of the possible cool phenomena that results from cellular respiration.
Wednesday 12/14
TEST on Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis Chapters 9 and 10
Friday 12/16
Photosynthesis Lab post-lab questions completed.
Watch and pay attention to the chromatography virtual lab. Make sure you understand both the procedure and results.
Homework for Week of 12/19
If you havenÕt already done so, schedule a meeting with Ms. DR to go
over your plans for your IRP. Sign up on GoogleDocs. Your Term II research paper is due on Monday, January 9, 2011.
Monday 12/19
Read Chapter 13 pp. 234-245. This is a good time to use your CD-ROM to help you through the stages of meiosis. You can also check out this very basic video of the meiosis process. If you find a good one on line, please let me know and I'll post the link for everyone.
Tuesday 12/20
Read Chapter 14 pp. 247-257
Genetics Probem Set - work on problems. You don't need to do every one, but you should feel confident that you can solve them all. You should be ale to handle problems addressing simple dominant and recessive traits.
Wednesday 12/21
Read pages 257-266.
Photosynthesis Lab write-up. Remember that you need to do a very detailed procedural write-up regardless of whether or not you do a formal lab report. Feport only on the results of your group's investigation.
Friday 12/23
NOVA Epigenetics video.
Here's a well done animation of the molecular mechanism of epigenetics.
Have a wonderful vacation and a Happy, Healthy
New Year!
SEE YOU IN Õ12.
Homework for Week of 1/2
NO SCHOOL
Tuesday 1/3
Read Why Your DNA isn't Your Destiny and The Unusual Suspects and answer the reading questions.
Here's a good review article summarizing current findings and avenues of research in epigenetics.
Wednesday 1/4
Recombination frequency problems due: textbook pp.285-286, #4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16
We won't be able to do the meiosis lab before the test, so walk yourself carefully through the virtual lab on the Biology Place website. Review both the concepts and the entire experimental design and analysis of results. We'll have the opportunity to actually look at Sordaria spores and recombination frequencies after the break.
Killer review problem. Check
your answers.
Read The Y
Files on page 26 of the Whitehead Institute magazine Paradigm Fall 2003. Look up other
articles by and about David Page and his work on the Y chromosome. If you
have the time, the lecture, to which there is a video link, is excellent.
Review for test!
Friday 1/6
HEREDITY (Mendelian Genetics) TEST:
Chapters 14 and 15
Homework for Week of 1/9
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please notify me and show me un-recorded graded work when you see me. If you
are missing work, talk to me ASAP about what you can still make up for late
credit. There is not indefinite
amnesty for work not turned in by the due date!!
Monday 1/9
Term II IRP research paper due. Remember that you must include a properly formatted bibliogrpahy, with citations (references to the bibiographic material) in the body of the text. Look over the grading rubric for specific criteria.
WeÕre not yet up to
evolution as a topic of class discussion, but you have heard of genes, and
IÕve mentioned that the whole scientific view of genetic control is currently
undergoing rapid evolution. Check this out!! (ItÕs a really short podcast)
Evo-Devo by editor
Christopher Mims from SciAm News
Read chapter 16.
Tuesday 1/10
Chi-squared practice problems.
NOTE: Sordaria Lab will take place in class on whatever day in the next week the fungus are ready for examination.
Wednesday 1/11
Read chapter 17.
Focus on Transcription.
Here's a great (short) animation of the mechanism of epigenetics and the molecular basis of the on/off switches to which we've alluded. Now that you have a clearer picture of DNA, it should make a lot of sense (except for how it's inherited!)
Friday 1/13
TERM II Cumulative Exam after school today.
Answer questions #1-5 on pages 39 and 40 of the lab handout, and solve the Chi-square problems in that handout. Write legibly and use complete sentences! (Note: These are the Chi-squared practice problems we worked through in class.)
Read chapter 17.
Focus on Translation.
Homework for Week of 1/16
Monday 1/16
NO SCHOOL
You should be able
to explain the central dogma in your sleep.
Here are links to the videos we saw in class:
Slo-mo (explained) replication with cheesy electronic music
transcription and translation with ground swelling soundtrack
Tuesday 1/17
Meiosis Pre-lab questions due.
Wedensday 1/18
Chapter
16 and 17 in-class reading quiz.
Sordaria lab in class.
Friday 1/20
As I mentioned in class on Wednesday, I will not be in class today (Friday). However, you are expected to come to 415 and pick up a folder of Dragon genetics from the table by the door.
Work with a partner, and transcribe the four chromosomes printed in the packet. Translate the mRNA you have transcribed. Use the chart in the folder to determine what trait the sequence of amino acids represents. Color your dragon according to the traits its genome dictates.
Return the entire folder and the dragon (with the dragon's name, your names and block!!!) to the boxes on the table by the door in 415. Other students will be using the folder other blocks, so be sure to leave the extra chromosome and dragon template pages in the folder!
Please post your Sordaria data to the GoogleGroup.
Post-lab questions and calculations for Sordaria lab will be collected when I see you on Tuesday.
Homework for Week of 1/23
Monday 1/23
Use the Biology Place gel electrophoresis tutorial to walk yourself through the lab and see animations of how gel electrophoresis works. Also read the Lab Bench pages about how restriction enzymes work. Be prepared to ask me questions when I see you in class tomorrow.
Tuesday 1/24
Answer the electrophoresis pre-lab questions on the lab handout .
Wednesday 1/25
Electrophoresis
Lab Day.
Read Chapter 18 pp 328-340: Genetics of Viruses
Friday 1/27
Electrophoresis Post-Lab questions due.