COURSE SCHEDULE & RESOURCES 2019-2020: Ms. Margaret Bahe |
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Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
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RESOURCES FOR AP BIOLOGY | |
Textbook | Campbell's Biology in Focus, 3rd Edition, published in 2019. Sections indicated from the syllabus are from this text. Students need not bring their texts to class unless specifically asked to do so. Students can also access the text online. Use the text as a resource to explain the topics discussed in class and lab. |
Study Guide & |
Study guide to accompany Campbell's Biology in Focus, 1st edition. Specific sections from each chapter will be noted on the syllabus. In addition, students will find a wealth of study aids on the website that accompanies Campbell's Biology in Focus. |
Lab Manual | AP Biology Investigative Labs (published by the College Board) plus numerous addtional labs described in handouts in the class binder. Updates to the first edition are available here. The HHMI guide to statistics is extremely helpful. |
Lab Results &Notebook | Students will keep a record of their laboratory work in their notebook/binder, including all raw data collection and documentation of their laboratory investigations. Students will also be writing formal lab reports and data analysis on most of their investigations. |
Syllabus |
Students will use the syllabus below for both daily and long term asssignments. Due dates and specific details may be adjusted during class. Reading assignments should be completed before class, although "pop quizzes" will never be given. Some students find reading more helpful after having heard discussion of the topics. The textbook should be used as just one of many available resources to help clarify concepts. Often a short (5-15 minute) video clip or two is offered to present the content in addition to the text. |
Binder | Students will receive both a Fall Binder, a Spring Binder and a Review binder. These binders should be brought to class and lab everyday. They contain diagrams, handouts, worksheets, lab descriptions, practice problems, and other useful materials for the efficient flow of class. Students should add their own notes directly to this binder. Binder Pages as PDFs |
Reading About Biology |
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1: THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE: Binder Pages: Unit1 |
Week 1: August 22 - 23: school begins (Two Days) |
Lab 2 | Quick Introduction to course Themes ppt (may not be used) & The Four Big Ideas; |
Welcome Back!! Here is where the assignment for this day would be listed. If you stumble here in the summer, feel free to peruse chapter #1 |
Class 3 | Chemistry for Biology (Use the periodic table Binder pg. 67-68); Emphasis here is on types of chemical bonds & electronegativity |
Text 2.1 - 2.4** or Watch chemistry Background for Biology (kind of dull but helpful) (Organization items listed on the assignment for the weekend.) |
**Nearly everything we talk discuss in Chemistry today should be review since you have had an entire year of chemistry. A couple of concepts will be indispencible, so concentrate on isotopes, energy levels, valence shell electrons, electronegativity & types of bonding. |
Week 2: August 26 - 30 |
Class 1 | Lab Set Up: Scientific Method: Design an Experiment: Seed Germination (Binder 69-70); new greenhouse is available
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Text 1.1 (Skim), 1.2 (Skim), 1.3 (Read)** (See below) Read Science Policies Binder pg. 3; Register for Campbell's website (Binder pg 4); Sign the Safety contract (pg. 5) Find our class website; Download the AP Bio essays (see toppage of this web) to your computer. Insert Dividers into binder (See above box for pages # on units) Look thru Binder 8-64 just to see what's there. Optional: Don't let this happen to you! I'm here to help! |
**Use your text as a reference. Much of the Biology content of the course will be discussed in class and your text will serve to help explain that content in another way. You may read the content before or after class; you will never have a "pop quiz" on a night's reading but sometimes you will be expected to be ready to discuss the reading in classs. |
Lab 1 | Lab Activities: Water's Properties; (Binder pg. 79-80) Two new Bozeman videos: Ocean Acidification and Coral Bleaching |
Text 2.5; Nice short summary here on the properties of water. Complete Chemistry Review (Binder 75-77) Answers to Chem Review - check yours; OPTIONAL: Watch Bozeman's Water - A Polar Molecule |
Class 2 | Application: Water Transport in Plants: check Seeds Skill: Interpreting a Scatter Plot with Regression Line: Text pg. 41 (Binder page 89): Carbonate ion concentration ad Calcification Rate of a Coral Reef |
Text 29.5 - Pay particular attention to how the properties of water are used in the process of water transport & Watch Plant Transport: Xylem & Phloem (Med. Animations) (5.5 min) |
Lab 2 | Introduce and Practice
using EXCEL for data tables and graphs - Use seed data; (See Introduction to Data Analysis Binder 71 and 91+) |
Text 3.1**(Reading ahead about Carbon) Watch "Making a Line Graph in Excel" (6.5 minutes - use as future resource) |
**I will ask you to memorize the functional groups in figure 3.6: name, formula (from Textbook pg. 48) and properties conferred (from class); you could make some flashcards to help you learn these. |
Class 3 | Carbon & Functional Groups (Use Binder pg. 83) Carbon ppt |
Text 3.2 - 3.3 |
Week 3: Sept 2 - 6 (4 DAYS -- No Mon. Labor Day) |
Class 1 | No School - Labor Day |
No School |
Lab 1 | AP Lab #11: (Begin) Transpiration in Plants: Set up (Binder pg. 85+); Input data into Google Spreadsheet (See your email) |
Read AP Lab Manual pg. 135 - 137; Write Essay #129 on water (See below) |
Essay #129: The unique properties (characteristics) of water make life possible on Earth. Select three properties of water and: a. For each property, identify and define and explain it in terms of the physical/chemical nature of water. b. For each property, describe one example of how the property affects the functioning of living organisms |
Class 2 | Introduce
Polymers; Carbohydrates (Binder diagrams pg. 95+and on) |
Watch Bozeman's Carbohydrates |
Lab 2 | AP Lab #11: Measuring Stomate Densities |
Text 29.6; Watch video: Bozeman's Finding Stomata (4.5 minutes) and watch How Stomata Can Open & Close (1.5 min.) Remember to work on your seed germination lab report |
Class 3 | Finish Carbohydrates (Binder pg. 95+) & Begin Lipids (Binder pg. 86+) All Organic Molecules ppt |
Text 3.4 and/or watch Bozeman's Lipids; Write answers to Stomate Questions (Handed out in class or link provided) Remember to work on your seed germination lab report |
Week 4: Sept. 9 - 13 |
Class 1 | Finish Lipids; Begin discussion of protein structure (Binder 98+); build with toobers LOOK BELOW TO THE WHITE BOX FOR INFORMATION FOR YOUR UPCOMING TEST! |
Remember to work on your seed germination lab report - Due Tomorrow Optional: Want more information on exactly what SEM and 95% CI are? Try this 10 min. video: Standard Deviation & Standard Error of the Mean (very clear and straightforward) |
Lab 1 | AP Lab #11: Transpiration in Plants: Follow-up; (Binder pg.85+); Plant Structure & Transport (Binder 81-82); Optional: simulation for the effect of temperature on the rate of transpiration with a new technique to measure transpiration - |
Complete Lab on Seed Germination (One data table & two graphs made with EXCEL with error bars on the bar graph; short conclusion - items #1-3 from Lab Report Discussion Binder p. 12) - Due TODAY Useful videos: How to add error bars to Excel graph (nice accent); How to add error bars in Google Chart. |
Lab 2 | Complete proteins & organic molecules (Binder pg. 100+) All Organic Molecules ppt Lab Skills: Using spreadsheets to do calculations, create data tables, calculate statistics, and draw graphs for transpiration lab. (Binder 85+); you should leave lab today with all data done for at least one question. (Final Transpiration Lab Report is due Monday Oct 1) Useful Video: Adding Error Bars in Excel (2 min) |
Practice identifying the organic molecules illustrated on Binder Page 103; |
Class 3 | TEST: Unit #1 (See essay question below) Chapters: 1 , 2, 3, parts of 29 (29.5 - 29.6) |
Prepare for TEST Write Essay Question # |
Test Essay | 57. Discuss the biological importance of each of the following organic compounds in relation to cellular structure and function in plants and animals. Include how the structure of these molecules allows them to carry out these functions. a. Carbohydrates. b. Proteins c. Lipids. |
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STUDY GUIDES | Write the answers to the following in your study guide Ch. 1: Focus Questions: 1.6 - 1.7 Multiple Choice: 1-3, 5, 6 Ch. 2: Focus Questions: All except 2.12 Structure your knowledge:1, 3Multiple Choice: All except 22 and 43 Ch. 3: Focus Questions: All (write 3.9 to the left- include at least 8 links) except 3.10 and 3.11 (we will not study nucleic acids now) Structure your knowledge: 2, 3 & 4 (You will need a sheet of paper for #4) Matching All except 3 and 6 Multiple Choice: All except 6, 14, 22, and 24-26 |
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OTHERS | Objectives for Unit #1 |
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ESSAYS | 149, 193,129, 199, 110, 35, 57, 110, 127, 152, 185, 31, 48a, 55a, 99, 109, 125, 134, 158, 175, 199, 212, 229 | |
VIDEOS | The videos section of the resurces provides links to videos that either are short snippets on individual concepts, or they are 10-15 minute presentations on a larger topic. Those done by Bozemen Science (by an AP Bio teacher named Paul Anderson) are the best. If you'd like to hear another point of view, listen to a presentation a second time, like to review orally, or need to make up a lesson becaue of an absence, then these Bozeman videos are for you. Peter Raven's site has numerous short animations on many topics we study. | |
VIDEOS & MORE | Mr. Anderson (Bozeman Science) can walk you through |
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CELL STRUCTURE & MEMBRANE TRANSPORT Binder Pages: Unit 2 |
Week 5: sept. 16 - 20 |
Class 1 | Return Tests |
Text 5.1 Work on Transpiration Lab: Make table for question 2 (the effect of your variable on one of the plant types); (table and graph for question 1 should already be completed) Due Thurs Oct 3 |
Lab 1 | AP Lab #4: Diffusion & Cell Size; Diffusion & Solute Size; Cell Races; (Parts 1 & 2 - Binder pg. 109+) Demo: Celery &Carrots; Demo Iodine & Starch Introduce Parts 3 & 4 of Lab concerning Water Potential |
Text 5.2 Watch Bozeman's The Cell Membrane (6.5 min) Read & Bring AP Lab Manual Lab #4 Intro pg. 51 - 54 Work on Transpiration Lab: Make progress on graph for Plant Type #2; Due Thursday Oct. 3 |
RadioLab (NPR) has a fun and interesting segment analyzing why small cells like sperm and bacterium need special adaptations for movement. 5 minutes of interest - scroll down to the video at Comparing Sperm Whales To Sperm: A Swimming Contest |
Class 2 | Discuss Mechanisms for Transport Across Membranes (Use Binder page 121 - 129+- outline) |
Text 5.3 - 5.5 Watch Bozeman's Transport Across Membranes (14 min) and Membrane Transport in Cells Symport, Antiport, Co-transport [3D Animation] (6 min) |
Lab 2 | AP Lab #4: Parts 3: Solute Concentration and Diffusion Rates; Determining Water Potential (Binder 112+); Set up Google Doc for AP Lab #4; share results |
Text 5.3** (Bozeman's video on Cell Membrane Structure & Cell Walls is quite good) Complete AP Lab #4 parts 1 & 2 (Binder pages 109-111 - to be turned in Friday Sept. 28) |
**This reading, Text 5.3, will make much more sense after today's lab. |
Class 3 | Share Data from Part 3: Solute Concentration and Diffusion Rates APPLICATIONS: Food Transport in Plants (Binder page 159) Transport in Plants ppt and Water Regulation (Osmoregulation in Fish (Binder 160) (See Bozeman Osmoregulation) |
Text 29.7; Watch Phloem Loading (2.3 min); |
Week 6: Sept. 23 - 27 (Blue & Gold week) |
Class 1 | If needed, Finish Applications (Food Transport in plants (emphasize plasmodesmata, too)& Osmoregulation is Fish & Contractile Vacuoles in protists & Central Vacuoles in plants) of water potential |
Text 4.1 - 4.4** (like videos? Try Bozeman's Cellular Organelles); |
**You will need to memorize cell organelles, their structure (recognize in a diagram), and their functions. Start now making some flash cards -- remember -- you will benefit from making your own flashcards! Continue making flashcards with tomorrow night's reading. |
Lab 1 | AP Lab #4: Part 4: Set up Determining Water Potential (Binder 101+); Set up Google Doc for Part 4
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Text 4.5-4.7; |
Class 2 | Finish Cell Structure & Function (Binder 133+) |
Text 5.4 - 5.5 Work on AP LAb #4 (109-117) Work on your conclusion for your transspiration lab |
Lab 2 | Follow-up to Lab Part 4: Determine the Water Potential of Potato and Vegetables; Calculate percent change in mass; Share data in Google Doc; work on all parts of the lab - Due Tomorrow; time in class for working on this lab. |
Practice Labeling typical Cells (Binder 137-138) Finish up Transpiration Lab (Due Oct 3) by finishing your conclusion, three line graphs, one bar graph, and a data table for the three line graphs. Text 29.2 may be helpful with conclusion. |
Class 3 | Cell Structure & Function (Binder 137-138) Try Practice sample water potential problems (Binder 139) |
Text 29.2 |
Week 7: SEPT. 30 - Oct. 4 (3 days - No Monday, Rosh Hashanah & NO CLASSES WED FOR SENIORS) (Bahe @ Drey LaND, Session 1, sun - wed.) |
Class 1 | No School - Rosh Hashanah Observance |
No School |
Lab 1 | Lab: Cell Structure (Binder 141 - 150) |
Try Water Potential Sample questions (Binder pg. 153+ #TBA) Answers will be posted here. |
Class 2 | No Classes for Seniors |
Complete Transpiration Lab: DUE TOMORROW! Print before you come to class. Staple in the order of : Q1: Table, Graph for Ajuga, Q2: Table, Graph for plant Pachysandra, and Q3: Table, Graph Ajuga & Pachysandra compared, Bar graph of Stomate Densities, Conclusion . |
Lab 2 | Lab: Membranes and Temperature: Using a spectrophotometer to measure pigment leakages from red beet tissue. Share data in lab and discuss results. (Binder pg. 119-120) |
Transpiration Lab Due TODAY! Try Water Potential Sample questions (Binder pg. 153+ #TBA) Answers will be posted here. |
Class 3 | Review Try Practice sample water potential problems (Binder 153+) Possible: Origins of cell compartmentalization |
Look at unit objectives. Come with questions for your test. |
Week 8: Oct. 7 - 11 (2 Days - Yom Kippur on Wednesday; no school Thurs or Fri - Report Writing) |
Class 1 | Test: Unit #2; Chapters 4 and 5 (not section 5.6) |
Prepare for TEST |
STUDY GUIDES | Ch. 4: Focus Questions: 4.1 (b-d), 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 (a-d) Structure your knowledge: 1 - 4 (Use just a short phrase to summarize the function of each for #2, ) Multiple Choice: All except 3, 14 - 16 Ch. 5: Focus Questions: 5.1 - 5.7, 5.9; for 5.3 make the list [We will parts of Ch. 5 later in another unit; don't cross them out] Structure your knowledge: 2 Multiple Choice: 1 - 18 (some of these are quite challenging) Ch. 29: Focus Questions: 29.2, 29.9, 29.10, 29.11 Structure your knowledge: #4 only (Write on the bottomon page 215) Multiple Choice: 3, 4, 6, 7, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 |
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TEST ESSAY | #137. Cells transport substances across their membranes. Choose THREE of the following four types of cellular transport.
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OTHERS | Objectives for Unit #2 | |
ESSAYS | 1, 27, 41, 58, 70, 75, 94, 113, 117a, 127, 152, 137, 156, 156c, 168D, 170, 173, 177, | |
VIDEOS | Mr. Anderson of Bozeman can help you with |
Take a tour of animal cell |
3: METABOLISM & DIGESTION Binder Pages Unit 3 |
Lab 1 | Return Tests |
Text 6.4 Watch Bozeman's Enzymes (12 min) |
Class 2 | No School: Yom Kippur |
No School |
Lab 2 | No School: Report Writing |
No School |
Class 3 | No School: report Writing |
No School |
Week 9: Oct. 14 - 18 (Saturday is Blue & Gold Dance) |
Class 1 | Introduction to Metabolism, Thermodynamics & ATP (Binder pg. 169+) Metabolism, ATP & Enzymes ppt |
Text 6.2 & 6.4 and/or watch Bozeman's ATP); Do Watch Bozeman's Life Requires Energy for a big picture overview of energy & life; (ABSENT TODAY? Try Energetics ppt (8.9MB) to review class) |
Lab 1 | Lab: Measuring the Rate of Enzyme Catalyzed Reaction - Run experiment; Making a Mini-Poster using the template (Binder pg. 167) |
Text 6.1 Think about your design for a controlled procedure to answer your question about enzyme rates; rewatch Bozeman's Enzymes . |
Class 2 | Gibbs Free Energy; Activation Energy & ATP (Binder pg. 170+) Metabolism, ATP & Enzymes ppt Can use Binder pg. 179-182 chemical Reactions & Energy KEY POSTED HERE; |
Text 6.3 Watch Bozeman's Gibbs Free Energy; Work on Lab Mini-Poster; Bring (not do) Binder pages Chemical Reactions & Energy (Binder 179-182); we may work on this in class after discussion. |
Lab 2 | AP Lab #13: Experiment using Turnip Peroxidase (In lab manual) -- Learn technique (Also binder pg. 171+); |
Work on Mini-Poster on Catalase Investigation; Read AP Lab Manual pg. 153 - 156 and/or watch video (13 min) AP Lab #13: Enzyme Activity with Peroxidase |
Class 3 | Enzyme Regulation - Cofactors, Inhibition, Membrane Placement (Binder 177-178) |
Text 6.5 Finish writing answers to Chemical Reactions & Energy (Binder pg. 179-182) and compare your thoughts to the Key; |
Week 10: Oct. 21 - 25 (Fall Play - practices & Performances) |
Class 1 | APPLICATION: Digestive Enzymes in the Human System (Binder pg. 183+) The Digestive System ppt |
Text 33.2 (Adaptations) |
Lab 1 | APPLICATION: Adaptations in Digestive Systems, especially the human system (Binder pg. 183+) |
33.3 - 33.4** (Digestive Sytsems); Watch Bozeman's The Digestive System (10 min), concentrate on anatomy & enzymes; |
**As you read, pay particular attention to adaptations that increase the efficiency for mechanical and chemical digestion as well as absorption. Interesting article: Can Gut Bacteria Explain Your Mood? |
Class 2 | Complete adaptations of Animal Adaptations to Digestion & Enzymes |
NEED REVIEW HANDOUT!!!! Complete Mini-Poster on Catalase Investigation; |
Lab 2 | AP Lab #6: Design an experiment to Measure Rate of Cellular Respiration (For Gas Law review) (Binder pg. 199+) Lab Seed/ Invertebrate Respiration ppt | Read & Bring AP Lab Manual pg. 71 - 72; Watch Bozeman's Intro to Cellular Respiration Lab (Good Intro; alternate method is not our method, however); |
The digestive system ingests, digests, and absorbs nutrients. Identify and explain one specific example within the human digestive system that illustrates each of the following: |
Class 3 Note to Bahe: Moved Test form Fri to Monday |
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Complete Peroxidase Lab Follow-up (explained in class - Questions, Graphs & a conclusion table Binder pg. 175) Text 7.1 Try Bozeman's Cellular Respiration. It will be helpful to watch again AFTER we have discussed the process. Optional: Animation of Cellular Resp. Stages (6 min) |
**For respiration and photosynthesis, you do NOT need to memorize the process. You need to be able to read the diagrams and answer questions about the process. You are likely to be presented with the diagrams. |
Class 1 Moved rom Friday to Monday |
TEST: Unit #3; Chapters: 6, 33 (parts 33.2 - 33.5) |
Prepare for TEST Essay #145 for the test (See Objectives) |
STUDY GUIDES | Ch. 6: Focus Questions: All Structure your knowledge: 1 and 2 (try to answer these in one short sentence each) Fill in the Blanks: 1-10 Multiple Choice: All Ch. 33: Focus Questions: 33.4, 33.5, 33.6, [Don't cross out 33.8 - we will use later] Structure your knowledge: 1 Multiple Choice: 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 |
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TEST ESSAY | Write Essay #145 outside of class and bring to the test. (See the end of your objectives; /the essay and it's associated graph is written there.). | |
OTHERS | Objectives for Unit #3; | |
ESSAYS | 26, 52, 81, 97, 123, 134, 145, 170, 185, 194, 202, 11, 49, 84, 90, 125, 154, 193, 199, 11, 49, 84, 90, 125, 154, 226 | |
VIDEOS | Mr. Anderson can talk you through... National Geographic: the Digestive System (5 min - kind of gross but interesting video footage) |
AP Lab #13: Enzyme Activity with Perioxidase About the enzyme catalase from the RCSB PDB Protein Data Bank |
Week 11: Oct. 28 - Nov. 1 (4 days: THURS - Halloween assembly; Fri - No School; Conferences) |
ENERGY PROCESSES, CELLULAR RESPIRATION & GAS EXCHANGE Binder Pages: Unit 4 |
Lab 1 | Return Tests |
Text 7.6 and 34.6; Watch Bozeman's the Respiratory System (9 min) and part of Homeostatic Evolution (about respiratory system evolution from min. 7:30 - 11:20) |
We won't be covering the human body completely. Here is an interesting video with lots of visuals about Inside the Living body (90 min.) |
Class 2 | Glycolysis (pg. 207+) |
Text 7.2 Optional: Bozeman's the Mitochondrion |
Lab 2 | Complete Data Gathering for Lab: Respiration at the organismal level: Human Lung Volumes & Breathing Rates (Binder pg. 219+) |
Text 34.5 and 34.7 Finish Follow up to AP Lab #6, Rate of Cellular Respiration (explained in class); Read: Making the most of muscle oxygen |
Class 3 | No School - ISACS & Parent Conferences |
No School |
Week 12: Nov. 4 - 8 |
Class 1 | Krebs Cycle & Electron Transport Chain
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Text 7.3 and 7.4; Start: Research and write about one food or product produced using fermentation (See Binder pg. 215); |
Lab 1 | Thermoregulation: Binder page 213 |
Watch Bozeman's Thermoregulation (5 min) and Watch Bozeman's explanation of the Q10 calculation (3.5 min) and Watch Undead zombie flowers of Skunk Cabbage (Plant melts snow) |
Class 2 | Do an accounting of all ATP ProductionBinder ??; |
Text pg. 157 and sections 7.5 & 7.6 Finish: Research and write about one food or product produced using fermentation (See Binder pg. 215); Try the review respiration multiple choice questions beginning on Binder p. 237+ |
Lab 2 | Lab: Absorbing Light for Photosynthesis (leaf pigment chromatography & Rf values, absorption spectrum; leaf structure ) (Binder pg. 247+);
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Text 8.1 & 8.2 (through p. 173) and text pg. 597 (on leaves); Optional but interesting: The Chemistry of Fall Colors |
Class 3 | Application: Adaptations of Human Respiratory systems (Binder pg. 227+) Respiratory Systems & Gas Exchange ppt Review for test
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Lab Report: Lung Volumes & Breathing Rates Binder pg. 219+ (details explained in class) |
Week 13: Nov. 11 - 15 |
ENERGY PROCESSES, PHOTOSYNTHESIS Binder Pages: Unit 5 |
Class 1 | Test: Unit #4 Energy Processes, Celluar Respiration & Gas Exchange & Transport; Chapters: 7, 34 (parts 34.1, 34.3, 34.5 - 34.7) |
Prepare for TEST - Test Essay: See below
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STUDY GUIDES | Ch. 7: Focus Questions: All except 7.6 Structure your knowledge: 3 Multiple Choice: All Ch. 34: Focus Questions: 34.10, 34.11 Structure your knowledge: 2 Multiple Choice: 20 - 26 (Respiration) |
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ESSAY FOR TEST | #238. - See page 32 in your binder (The question has a diagram, too hard to reproduce here). |
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OTHERS | Objectives for Unit #4 Working with Data: Chemiosmosis, Air Flow in Birds, Measuring Residual Volume, |
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ESSAYS | 25, 36, 63, 101, 105, 117, 127, 133, 165, 194, 6, 25, 37c, 42, 48b-c, 63, 71a, 80a, 87, 117b, 133, 141, 163, 194, 205, 17, 32, 54, 72, 80, 84, 96, 119, 130, 133, 146(e), 149, 155, 156B, 176, 200, 238 | |
VIDEOS | Mr. Anderson (Bozemean Science)can talk you through... |
Kahn Academy will give you (more slowly) How to apply digital filter to Vernier's EKG trace (for your teacher) |
Lab 1 | Intro to
AP Lab #5: Measuring the rate of photosynthesis in leaves: Leaf Disk Flotation (Overview - Williamson). |
Bozeman's video The Chloroplast |
Class 2 | Chloroplast Structure (Binder pg. 255+ |
Read Text 8.2 (start pg 173) |
Lab 2 | Share data for the Quantitative Spectrophotometer readings of Spinach and one other leaf type |
Watch Bozeman's Photosynthesis |
Class 3 | Light Reactions (Diagrams Binder 257+) Photosynthesis ppt Begin: Photosynthesis: Dark Reactions - Making Carbon Compounds (Binder 259) Photosynthesis ppt (Pop beads can be used to follow the carbons) |
Complete Chromatography & Leaf Anatomy Lab follow-up (Binder 251-253) This 2 min. Leaf Structure video and this 3.5 min. Structure of the Leaf video will be helpful for finishing the lab Absent today? Here and Here are videos that explain the light reactions. Khan Academy does a nice job, too. |
Lab Report on Leaf Disk Flotation: (1) Draw a well labeled picture or set of pictures illustrating the procedure that your team did For each of the (2) Write a hypothesis/method/prediction statement for JUST THE COLOR OF LIGHT QUESTION. Feel free to write this in several sentences. (3) Construct a data table and a graph FOR JUST THE COLOR OF LIGHT QUESTION; no statistics are necessary (4) Evaluate the results with reference to your hypotheses FOR JUST THE COLOR OF LIGHT Question; (a) use data to determine if the hypotheses are supported; (b) address any unexpected results; (c) identify two things about the procedure that we did not or could not hold constant that may have affected our results |
Week 14: Nov. 18 - 22 |
Class 1 | Calvin Cycle |
Text 8.3 Video: the Calvin Cycle Questions and Graph for DPIP experiment due today. |
Lab 1 | Lab: Set up Sordaria Crosses |
Work on Lab Report: Leaf Disk flotation (See above assignment) Watch Bozeman's Photosynthesis & Respiration as a good review of the molecular processes; Binder pg. 271-280 (MC & Leaf Anatomy) (Answers will be posted here |
Class 2 | Application: Adaptations in Plants for Photosynthesis under hot dry condidtons: C3, C4, CAM & Others (Binder pg 261+) Short Powerpoint with Notes Here |
Work on Leaf Disk Flotation Lab; OPTIONAL: Missed class today? Try this video Photosynthesis Part 5: C4 and CAM that we watched in class and another that is further explanation of how C3 and C4 plants do photosynthesis |
Lab 2 | AP Lab #7: Statistics: Chi-Square Analysis Use Pennies, M&Ms, & Dice (Binder 283+) |
Lab Report on Leaf Disk Flotation Due today. OPTIONAL: For our lab, watch Bozeman's Chi-square presentation |
Class 3 | Test: Unit #5 Photosynthesis & Adaptations; Chapters: 8 and pg. 556 & 565 (You will need to compare Photosynthesis to Cellular Resp.) |
Prepare for TEST - Essay written during test |
STUDY GUIDES | Ch. 8: Focus Questions: All except 8.7 Structure your knowledge: 1 (make on another sheet of paper and insert into the study guide: DO FOR SURE!) Multiple Choice: All |
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OTHERS | Objectives for Unit #5 | |
ESSAYS | 6, 25, 37c, 42**, 48, 63, 71, 80a, 87 (very long), 117b, 133(a), 141**, 163**, 194, 205**, 133(a), 222** The ** indicate likely question for the TEST; you will write your essay during the test. | |
VIDEOS | Mr. Anderson can talk you through... -Lab Technique: Mr. Bleier's: Using DPIP to measure rate of photosynthesis - Help with C4 and CAM metabolism: Watch Photosynthesis part 5: C4 and CAM |
Kahn Academy will give you (more slowly) |
Week 15: Nov. 25 - 29 (No Wednesday, Thursday or Friday: Thanksgiving) |
CELL DIVISION, CONTROL OF DIVISION, & CANCER Binder Pages: Unit 6 |
Class 1 | Return Tests DNA, Chromososmes, Diploid vs Haploid, Homologous Pairs of Chromosomes Mitosis & The Cell Cycle (G1, S, G2, M) - Do Matching Practice (Binder 301) |
Text 9.1 Watch several of these videos: Cell Cycle & Mitosis (6 min.- Med. Animations) and Mitosis Made Super Easy and BioFlix Mitosis (3 min) and Bozeman's Phases of Mitosis (12 min) |
Lab 1 | Introduction to Mitosis and the Cell cycle (Binder pg. 293+ and 285+); Practice Chi-Square Problem (pg. 279-80) Mitosis ppt |
Text 9.2 especially figure 9.7: |
Class 2 | No School - Thanksgiving |
No School |
Lab 2 | No School - Thanksgiving |
No School |
Class 3 | No School - Thanksgiving |
No School |
Week 16: Dec. 2 - 6 |
Class 1 | Meiosis (Diagrams Binder pg. 299+); Meiosis ppt In class try chomosome Numbers (Binder pg. 309) |
Lab 1 | AP Lab #7: Sordaria Crossing Over Analysis (Binder pg. 321+) Sordaria ppt (Cards available); |
Bring AP Lab Manual (S93-S96) Watch Bozeman's The Sordaria Cross which will help explain what we are doing in Lab today. (Optional: Review Mitosis by watching BioFlix Mitosis Bozeman's Phases of Mitosis) |
Class 2 | Meiosis (draw); Nondisjunction
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Text 10.1 - 10.2, 36.1 Fig. 36.9; Watch Meiosis: Crossing Over and Variability (7 min.- Med. Animations) Do Practice Chi-Square Problems (Binder pg. 290 #2 and 3) Optional: Mitosis v. Meiosis (tutorial); |
Radiolab (NPR Program) has a fun segment on why organisms produce so many sperm. If you have long drive (23 minutes) try listening: Why so many sperm? and on the way home (20 min) you can find out why males have persisted so long even though they seem unnecessary Deep Freeze. Another 10 minutes and you can find out about wood mice sperm who form cooperative "Sperm Trains." |
Lab 2 | Lab: Squash & Smear of roots exposed to Lectin & Caffeine (use cards) AND measure length of roots & compare (Binder 297+); |
Text 10.3 - 10.4 Read & Bring AP Lab Manual pg. 83 - 90 |
Class 3 | Mitosis - Control of Mitosis -- How does a cell know when it's time to divide? (Binder 319+); Checkpoints, Cyclins & CDks; Mitosis Regulation ppt Intro to Cancer; Discuss HeLa Cells (Binder pg. 305)
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Text 9.3; Watch The Cell Cycle: Cyclins and Checkpoints (1 min) In preparation for your test, you can try these binder pages over the weekend: 301, 315, 317-318 OPTIONAL: Confused by cyclins & cdks? Try watching other teachers lectures Regulation of Mitosis or Regulations on the Cell cycle or Cell Division: cyclins, MPF (esp. from 1:30 - 5:50) |
Week 17: Dec. 9 - 13 (English paper due friday) |
CELL COMMUNICATION, HORMONE SIGNALS, & IMMUNITY Binder Pages: Unit 7 |
Class 1 | Cancer & Control of Cell Division |
Text 5.6 and Text 32.3 (Homeostasis pg. 678-680) and 32.2 pages 712-713 (Insulin & glucagon); Do follow-up to Sordaria lab (Binder Binder 335-339) Optional: Why bears don't get diabetes like we doText 36.3 (not pg. 774); Optional: The Learn Genetics Website has The Inside Story of Cell Communication tutorial and Cell communicadtion involved in the Flight or Fight response. |
Lab 1 | Test: Unit #6; Chapters: 9, 10 Second Period: Applications of Signal Transduction Pathways & Cell Communication |
Prepare for TEST |
STUDY GUIDES | Ch. 9: Focus Questions: All Structure your knowledge: 1, 2 (Write #2 on pg. 76) Fill in the blank: All Multiple Choice: All Ch. 10: Focus Questions: All Structure your knowledge:1, 2 (note those that make it unique compared to Mitosis) Multiple Choice:All |
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OTHERS | Objectives for Unit #6 Working with Data: cAMP |
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ESSAYS | 93, 98, 134, 147(a), 53, 132, 160, 161, 169, 78, 84d, 103, 114c, 115, 146(a,b), 160B, 164C, 201, 142, 22, 80b, 100, 103, 112, 139, 169, 30, 100, 1, 18, 23, 77, 95, 115, 131, 158, 160B, 228, 240, 244 (Unit 7) | |
VIDEOS | Mr. Anderson can walk you through |
Kahn Academy will give lectures on Animaltion: Role of p53 in cancer |
Class 2 | APPLICATION: Hormones & Signal Transduction Pathways (Binder 361) |
Watch Bozeman Positive & Negative Feedback (start about min 8:20) and Homeostasis in the Human Body (5 min - Med. Animations) |
Lab 2 | Lab: ELISA Reaction (Binder pg. 347+) Lab ELISA ppt; Show with Lab: BioRad's ELISA Explanation Turn in Lab results at the end of the lab - Which Panda is ovulating? |
Read Background on ELISA Binder 347-349 and watch this animation (2 min) and this animation (2 min) about the ELISA procdure; they help with the reading; |
Class 3 | APPLICATION: Immune System: Communication within the Immune System Immune cells interact by cell to cell contact - APCs, T-helper cells Cytokines regulate gene expression to allow for cell replication and division (Binder pg. 349+) Lab Immune System ppt |
Text 35.2 and 35.3 Watch: Bozeman's Cell Communication Optional: Cancer & Immunotherapy |
RadioLab has entire episode about Blood including a timeline on the history of blood, where the hosts "consider the power and magic of the red liquid that runs through our veins." Here's a one minute news clip from AAAS Sciencenetlinks on other rare types of blood |
Weekend Review Session: Saturday (12/14/19) Afternoon, time 2:30 pm, @ JBS |
Week 18: Dec. 16 - 20 Exams!!! |
Monday | Exams: History (10 am) | Prepare for your AP Bio exam |
Tuesday | Exam: Science (10 am) Review PPT Review sheet in binder pg. 363-373 | Bring questions to discuss |
Wednesday | Exam: Math (10 am) | Study for your other exams |
Thursday | Exams: Language (10 am) | Study for your other exams |
Friday | No School - Winter Break Begins! |
FINISH THOSE COLLEGE APPS! |
Lab 1 - Period 1 | Test: Unit #7; Parts of Chapters: 5, 16, 32, 33, 35, 36 Cell Signaling, Hormones & Immunity |
Use for Exam |
STUDY GUIDES | Ch. 5.6: Focus Questions: 5.10 - 5.12 Structure your knowledge: 3 and 4 (Try to write these on the bottom space on page 47) Multiple Choice:19 - 24 Ch. 32: Focus Questions: 32.4 Structure your knowledge: None Multiple Choice: 4, 6, 9 Ch. 33: Focus Questions: 33.8 only Ch. 35: Focus Questions: 35.2, 35.3 (c & d), 35.4, 35.5, Structure your knowledge: 1, 2 (We will probably have done something like #1 in calss together; use another sheet of paper) Multiple Choice: 7, 9, 10, 12, 16, 18 |
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OTHERS | Objectives for Unit #7 On Saturday we will have an exam review in the afternoon. Details TBA. Working with Data: cAMP |
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ESSAYS | NO ESSAY ON THIS TEST; JSUT MULTIPLE CHOICE 93, 98, 134, 147(a), 53, 132, 160, 161, 169, 78, 84d, 103, 114c, 115, 146(a,b), 160B, 164C, 201, 142, 22, 80b, 100, 103, 112, 139, 169, 30, 100, 1, 18, 23, 77, 95, 115, 131, 158, 160B, 228, 240, 244, 252 | |
VIDEOS | Mr. Anderson can walk you through LAB: ELIZA: Good Animation; Silent animation; From BioRad (our lab); From Sumanasic; From a BioRad company; The Biology Project; from U. of Michigan; |
Kahn Academy will give lectures on Crash Course: Your Immune System (nice review - entertaining talker) Animation: Role of p53 in cancer Hematology - the Coagulation Cascade |
DNA, PROTEIN SYNTHESIS, & BIOTECHNOLOGY Binder Pages: Unit 8 |
Week 19: Jan 6 - 10 Welcome back!!! |
Class 1 | Pass out new Spring Binder; keep fall pages handy at home. |
Text 3.6, 13.1, Absent? Try this video on Avery's Experiment and this one on Hershey Chase's Experiment |
Lab 1 - Period 2 | DNA: History of Discovery --> Watch Photo 51 (Rosalind Franklin); Structure of DNA (Binder pg. 9+) DNA ppt AP Lab #9: Paper Activities in preparation Genetic Engineering Experiments (Binder 15-25); Choose one application of CRISPR OPTIONS (Binder pg. 95) to reseaerch |
Text 13.4** |
**This is an introduction to many techniques (Plasmids as vectors, gene cloning, restriction enzymnes, electrophoresis, PCR, & DNA Sequencing). Over the next 3 weeks you will be using nearly all of thse techniques and will become much more familiar with them. |
Class 2 | Meselson Stahl Experiment (Binder pg. 27) |
Text 13.2 - 13.3; Watch Bozeman's DNA Replication (10 min) and DNA Replication (6 min) (DNA Replication process 3D Animation; also here); More on Telomeres Optional: Watch Bozeman's Meselson & Stahl Experiment Missed class today? Try DNA Replication from MIT (very good) |
Lab 2 | AP Lab #9: Restriction Analysis of DNA (Binder pg. 35+) Genetic Engineering ppt | Text 13.4** (See above) |
Class 3 | AP Lab #9: Follow up to Restriction Analysis (Binder pg 38+) - Construct a graph to determine fragment length; Calculating the fragment sizes on the agarose gel (lab followup - Binder 38 - 41 plus handout) How to Make Restriction Maps (Binder pg. 107-111) |
IF you don't know how to use semi-log grpah paper, then watch semi-log graph paper (4.5 min) Watch How to make a restriction map |
Week 20: Jan 13 - 17 |
Class 1 | Transcription & The DNA Code (Binder pg. 43+); Preview Lab on Bacterial Transformation |
Text 14.1 (pg. 283, 285-289), 14.2 - 14.3; Watch Transcription & Translation (Bozeman) and DNA Structure & Genetics (7.5 min - Med. Animations - GOOD!); Link for the CRISPR applications assignment - Due Tues. Jan 28 Optional Watch: Translation & Transcription (Crash Course); Missed class? Try Transcription (MIT lecture) |
Lab 1 | AP Lab #8: Bacterial Transformation (Binder pg. 55-59) Lab Bacterial Transformation ppt | Text part 14.4 (pg. 293 - 293) Optional: Watch: Bacterial Transformation from MIT Help session |
Class 2 | Read results & count colonies of Bacterial Transformation
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Do Practice DNA Replication (Binder 33); Write one detailed paragraph summarizing the process of DNA replication; For absentees: How to calculate transformation efficiency (kind of confusing) |
Lab 2 | Lab: Drosophila Genetics; Practice distinguishing males from females; Set up Drosophila crosses (Binder pg. 121+) Drosophila ppt |
Text 14.4 |
Class 3 | Complete Protein synthesis: Translation (Binder pg. 46+); Polysomes (Binder pg. 53); Discuss protein targeting - How does a protein know where to go? Watch Translation in class(from virtual cell) or DNA Translation Animation |
Text 15.1 |
Week 21: Jan 20 - 24 (4 days; no Monday - MLK Day; MICDS Winter basketball at JBS; dance show) (thimun departs friday) |
Class 1 | No School - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
No School |
Lab 1 | Lab: Begin Amplification of YOUR mitocondrial DNA for sequencing - Extract the DNA and set up PCR (Carolina Biological - Binder pg. 77-86); PCR Process (3 min) PCR Simulation to predict disease in patients |
Read & Bring AP Lab Manual pg. 97 -102; Watch PCR Animation (very good, but slow - 5 min); Read about your chosen application for Biotechnology on CRISPR |
Class 2 | Continue Regulation of Gene Expression: Operons in Prokaryotes (negative control) (Binder pg. 61+) Phet Simulation: Gene Machine: The Lac Operon (Binder 67+) Model Operon control with playdoh Discuss Types of Mutations (Point, Frameshift, Chromosomal Mutations, Trinucleotide repeats - Binder pg. 87); |
Text 15.1, 14.5 Bring AP Lab Manual; Read Binder pg. 77-79 (More background to lab); Watch Bozeman's Mutations; Optional: Example mutations with human diseases |
Lab 2 | Lab: Set up Electrophoresis of your DNA sample; Run (Binder 77+) Do Genetic Testing Exercise (Binder 97-103) Regulation of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes (Bnder 73) Eukarytoic Gene Regulation ppt; |
If ready, do practice for DNA and BioTech (Binder p. 117 #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (try), 7, 8 (very challenging - putting lots of stuff together), 9) Text 15.2 & Review Text 13.4; |
Class 3 | Lab: Read your electrophoresis gel of your DNA sample; Bahe will send for sequencing Complete Gene Expression in Eukaryotes Cancer - Lack of control --> Genes gone haywire; (Binder pg. 89+ Viral Reproduction - Using Viruses as Vectors for Biotech (Binder pg. 89+); |
Text 17.2; Watch Bozeman's Viruses and Viral Reproduction Optional: FYI Viral Evolution |
Week 22: Jan 27 - Jan 31 (THIMUN returns) |
Class 1 | Follow-up Biotechnology: How to find a gene; Putting together the Biotechnology tecniques (Binder 91-94, 111-115) Review of BioTech ppt |
Text 13.4, p. 353 |
Lab 1 | Lab Round Robin Presentations: The Applications of CRISPR (Biotechnology); Review for test; discuss essay on biotechnology |
Make your slide presentation in our Google Presentation about one application of Biotechnology CRISPR. Link for the original CRISPR applications assignment Optional: NPR's Radiolab podcast on CRISPR's update (second half is the update; entertaining) Optional: Science's annotated paper on CRISPR |
Class 2 | Test: Unit #8; Chapters: 3.6, 13, 14, 15.1, 15.2,17.2 |
Prepare for TEST |
STUDY GUIDES | Ch. 13: Focus Questions: All Structure your knowledge:1 and 2 (Write on a sheet of paper) Multiple Choice: All Ch. 14: Focus Questions: All Structure your knowledge: 2, 3 (Write #3 on the bottom of page 115) Multiple Choice: All Ch. 15.2: Focus Questions: 15.1, 15.2, (15.4 labels here are notimportant; do you udnerstand this diagram?) Structure your knowledge: 1, 2 (a, b, c) Multiple Choice: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 |
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OTHERS | Objectives for Unit #8 Working with Data: Determining Paternity, The Genetic Code, Recombinant DNA, Genomes, Cloning, |
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ESSAYS | 37a, 76, 88, 114d, 144, 24, 35, 47, 64, 94, 106, 120b, 121, 144, 147(b), 152, 168C, 170, 183, 196, 206 (a, b), 9, 15, 16, 82, 134, 147(c), 156A, 160A, 164A, 166, 160A, 196 (c), 15, 88, 120, 128, 138, 153, 180, 196, 197, 207, 225, 233, 236 (b)(Ch 21: 15, 88, 120, 128, 138, 153, 180), 248, 250 | |
VIDEOS | Mr. Anderson will explain Animations: Epigenetics (See Bozeman, too): |
Phet Simulation: The Gene Machine: Lac Operon Kahn Academy lectures about |
GENETICS & INHERITANCE Binder Pages: Unit 9 |
Lab 2 | Introduction to Mendelian Genetics Genetics ppt |
Text 11.1 - 11.2; Write essay on BioTechnology (Handed out in class) Check our website daily for the problems assigned in class. Please always do genetics problems on separate sheets of paper. |
Class 3 | Dihybrid Cross |
Text 11.3; Mendelian Genetics Problems (Pg 135 #5, 6, 7 Pg. 136 #1, 3, 4, TEXTBOOK pg. 234 #3, 4, 13) |
Week 23: Feb. 3 - 7 (No Friday - Professional Day) |
Class 1 | Continue with Some Exceptions to Mendelian Genetics: |
Text 11.4; |
Lab 1 |
Lab: DNA Extraction from Berries & Other Organisms (Binder pg. 133) Lab: Predigrees (Binder 147+) Practice Problems on More Exceptions to Mendel |
Binder Pg. 139 (all - it's one problem), p. 140 (#2, 3, (you might need a 4x4 square here), 7 and try 6) - (Note Text pg. 224 is useful for more explanation of today's class on Dom,Incomplete Dom, & Co-Dom) |
Class 2 | Pleiotropy, Newborn Screening Environment (examples: height & weight, hydrangea, seasonal fur color, sex determination in reptiles, UV on melanin production, yeast mating types) Practice Genetics Problems - Exceptions to Mendel; Introduce Sex-Linkage; Test your Color vision here. or here. Sex determination in other organisms (Birds - ZW; Bees - Haploid/Diploid) |
Text 12.1- 12.2 |
Lab 2 | Lab: First count the F2 Drosophila Flies (Binder pg. 125+) |
Do Genetics Problems: Pg. 142 (#1, 3, 4, 5, 6 - you must use two pairs of genes for #6) |
Class 3 | No School - Professional Day |
No School - Work on Drosophila Lab Report |
Week 24: feb. 10 - 14 |
Class 1 | Practice Sex-linkage problems Introduce Autosomal Linkage (Binder p. 143) Linkage & Recombination Frequencies |
Text 12.3; |
Lab 1 | Receive class Drosophila data & directions to perform the data analysis (Binder p. 127-128 ) Time to discuss crosses
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Watch Bozeman Epigenetics (9.5 min); Drosophila Data Here (Will be updated) Practice Genetics Problems: Textbook pg. 234 #2, 5 (think!), 6a, 6c, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14 (similar to #9), 15, 18 and Text pg. 252 #2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13) Check some answers in the back of the book. Work on the study guide problems for chapters 11 and 12. Lots of good practice here! |
Class 2 | Discuss a Final Few Genetics Concepts (Lethal alleles) Genetic Screening - Evaluate Bioethical Scenarios |
Text 12.4; |
Lab 2 | Lab: Work on Drosophila Data Analysis as a team; check one another's work |
Complete as much as possible on your cross of the Drosophila Data Analysis report. Bring to class to share with lab partners for editing. |
Week 25: Feb 17 - 21 (4 days; No Monday - President's Day) (Fri - Grandparent's morninG, per 1-2) |
Class 1 | No School - President's Day |
No School |
Lab 2 | Test: Unit #9 (double period) - time given for working out problems; Chapters: 11, 12 | Prepare for TEST |
STUDY GUIDES | Ch. 11: Focus Questions: All Structure your knowledge: 1, 2, 3 (May need a piece of paper) Genetics Problems 1-10 (DO THESE ON A PIECE OF PAPER) Multiple Choice: All except 7 Ch. 12: Focus Questions: All Structure your knowledge: 1, 2 Genetics Problems 1-5 (DO THESE ON A PIECE OF PAPER) Multiple Choice:All The pracctice problems in chapter 11 and 12 of the study guide are very good for becoming familiar with and testing your understanding of genetics problems. |
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OTHERS | Objectives Unit #9; | |
ESSAYS | 69, 98, 120a, 136, 157, 4, 15, 34, 40, 112, 120a-b, 132, 166, 203 (a, b), 219 (c), 251 | |
VIDEOS | Mr. Anderson of Bozeman Science will help you with |
Entertaining 10 minutes on Gregor Mendel from SciShow |
NATURAL SELECTION & THE ORIGIN & DIVERITY OF LIFE Binder Pages: Unit 10 |
Class 2 | History before Darwin Evolution & Natural Selection ppt - What did each contribute? (Binder p. 161) |
Text 19.1 |
Darwin Day, Feb 12: Baba Brinkman raps an ode to Darwin. He has an entire album of rap songs for Evolution. Click HERE. |
Lab 1 | Lab: Bird Beak & Seed Size Simulation: The Law of Natural Selection (Binder pg. 159-160);
Use Chi-square to analyze data Evolution & Natural Selection ppt |
Text 19.2
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Class 3 | Evidence for Evolution Evidence for Evolution ppt (pg. 163) Which is most convincing? Watch segments of "Evidence of Evolution Made Easy" and report on one segment (fossils, phylogentics, DNA, Evolutionary Baggage, Geographic distribution, Observing Evolution); handout: list of resources for evidence of evolution Begin Lab: Hardy-Weinberg Simulation (cards) (Binder pg. 167+); problems |
Text 19.3 OR Watch Bozeman's Evidence of Evolution and Evidence for Evolution II; |
Lab 2 | Lab: Hardy-Weinberg Simulation (cards) (Binder pg. 167+); The Assumptions for Hardy-Weinberg and Change in Gene Frequencies -> Microevolution; Bozeman's The Five Fingers of Evolution
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Text 21.1-21.2; Do Practice Evidence of Evolution (Binder pg. 165-166) Watch Bozeman's Genetic Drift Read: Evidence for current evolution: Chlorea and Bangladesh |
Class 3 | Discuss causes for evolution; Three Types of Natural Selection & Maintenance of Variation (If Time, stats practice: A Case of Sexual Selection and Evolution (Binder pg. 177+)) Cornell's Ornithology Activity on Sexual Selection and the video resources |
Text 21.3, 21.4 Do HW Problems Binder pg. 176 (#1 - 6) There are many more practice problems on pg. 199+ which we will do later. OPTIONAL: Do Online Activity: Visualizing Life on Earth: Interpreting Data; |
Week 26: Feb. 24 - 28 (Winter musical - Thur, Fri, Sat) |
Class 1 | Practice of Hardy-Weinberg problems |
Do H-W practice problems p. 199-201) #1, 3, 6, 9 (harder), 11, 13 (hint, determine p & q in current population and then use to predict the next the generation; are they the same?), 17 (remember the rules of probability), 25 |
Lab 1 | AP Lab #2: Computer Modeling Hardy-Weinberg: Set up the model using Excel; Select a Question to answer with your model (Binder pg. 185+) Lab: Using AlleleA1 for Mathematical Modeling of H-W (Binder pg. 189+) More simulations: U. of Wash.and Radford U.; |
Read & Bring AP Lab Manual pg. 25 - 29; Helpful for absentees: Hardy Weinberg Equation and Five Fingers of Evolution (5 min) |
Class 2 | What is a species? Speciation: Allopatric & Sympatric Speciation ppt; Reproductive Isolation & the Tempo of Evolution (Binder pg. 203- Practice classifying Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms) Speciation exampples: Hawaiian Drosophila, Caribbean Anolis, Apple Maggot Rhagoletis Show short Film on Grant's work on Galopogos Islands The Beak of the Finch or on YouTube |
Text 22.1, 22.2; |
Lab 2 | Finish Hardy Weinberg Simulation with Excel |
Read & Bring AP Lab Manual pg. 41 - 44; Optional: current examples of speciation: Lizards, Mice, Palm trees, Fish; Bizarre new lizard genetics, watching speciation occur, Birdfeeders & Black capped Warblers, London's Subway Mosquito, Giant Insect Splits Cavefish |
Class 3 | Discuss Sympatric Speciation and Rates of Evolution. Use evolution of the stickleback (case study) as mechanism for punctuated equilibrium (Binder pg. 235 - 244). Films: Bozeman's Stickleback Evolution and Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies; |
Text 22.4, Figure 23.22 on text pg. 476 |
Week 27: Mar. 2 - 7 (4 days - Wed. MAY PROJECT contact & Prefect day off ) |
Class 1 | The Broad Patterns of Evolution: Extinction (Plate Techtonics; Mass extinctions; Adaptive Radiations) | Text 23.2, 23.4 |
Lab 1 | Using HHMI's Finches Beak to evaluate Grant's work (Binder 205-214) |
Class 2 | No AP Bio Class; Visit your May Project Sponsor |
No AP Bio Class Follow-up to Beak of the Finch (Binder 203-212 including your 4 bar and 2 line graphs) |
Lab 2 | AP Lab #3: Using CLUSTALX & nPLOT (similar to BLAST) to investigate evolutionary relationships -- Ask your own Questions (Binder pg. 227-228) Blast Education resources; practice files from AP Central |
Watch Bozeman's Phylogenetics and Cladograms Complete Follow-up to Beak of the Finch (Binder 203-212 including your 4 bar and 2 line graphs - See your class for complete directions) |
Class 3 | Practice making cladograms & reading cladograms (Binder p.231+) The Origin of Life; (Binder pg. 245) Explore the timeline The Origin of Eukaryotes (Endosymbiosis and Infolding) & Multicellularity Origin of Life ppt |
Text 24.1 Do these multiple choice Questions: Binder pg. 247-276 # 1-4, 8, 14, 21, 35-39 and the written question on Binder 256 - Write on separate page. Watch Bozeman's Endosymbiosis Optional: Origin of Multicellularity; Endosymbiosis |
Week 28: Mar. 9 - 13 (No Friday - spring Break; Wed is Science test day) |
Class 1 | Complete Origin of Life |
Text 25.1, 25.2 |
Lab 1 | Continue Evolutionary relationships using BLAST; Practice reading and making cladograms |
Text 24.1, 24.4 (not pg. 472-3); Watch Bozeman's The Origin of Life - Scientific Evidence Do Evolution Practice (Binder 247+ #15, 22-26, 32-34, 40-47 and write #30) Optional: Miller - The Story Behind the Science and ClearStated's Video of Miller Experiment |
Of Possible Interest: BBC's Program, Episode 3 of the History of Science. How Did We Get Here? (52 min.) (Not working July 2019) This is the story of how scientists came to explain the beauty and diversity of life on earth, and reveal how its evolution is connected to the long and violent history of our planet. and Nick Barton's 14 min talk at the Falling Walls Conference on "Breaking the Wall that Limits Evolution: How Sexual Recombination Accelerates Adaptation." (2011) |
Class 2 | Test: Unit #10; Chapters: 19, 20(.1 & .3), 21, 22, 23 (23.2; 23.4) , 24 (24.1, 24.4), 25 (25.1 - 25.2) | Prepare for TEST |
STUDY GUIDES | Ch. 19: Focus Questions: 19.1 - 19.4 Structure your knowledge: 1 Multiple Choice:All Ch. 20: Focus Questions: 20.1, 20.3 Structure your knowledge: None Multiple Choice:1 - 6, 9 - 14, 16 Ch. 21: Focus Questions: 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5, 21.6 Structure your knowledge: 2 (Write on the bottom of page 159) Multiple Choice: All Ch. 22: Focus Questions: 22.1, 22.2, 22.4, 22.6 Structure your knowledge: 2, 3 (Write on the bottom of page 164) Multiple Choice: All except 2, 7, 12 Ch. 23: Focus Questions: 23.3 Structure your knowledge: None Multiple Choice: 3, 5, 7 11 Ch. 24: Focus Questions: None Structure your knowledge: 1 (Write on the bottom of page 177) Multiple Choice: 1 - 4 Ch. 25: Focus Questions: 25.1 Structure your knowledge: None Multiple Choice: None |
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OTHERS | Objectives for Unit #10 Working with Data: Animal Phylogeny, Phylogenetics, Reproductive Isolation, Prebiotic Molecules, |
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ESSAYS | 37b, 51, 116, 150, 160, 162, 5, 38, 67, 79, 102, 116, 121, 136, 160D, 162, 191, 195, 203 (c), 206 (c), 14, 21, 62, 91, 150, 192, 195, 143, 164A, 164D, 207 (a), 223, 230, 232, 236, 239, 243, 245 (long) | |
VIDEOS | Mr. Anderson will walk you through |
The Kahn Academy can lecture you on Harvard's Horizontal Gene Transfer; Molecular Evolution and The Early Earth; Speciation in Gators Allele A1Simulation: The Species Problem - Various ways to define species |
Lab 2 | AP Lab #12: Rolly Polly behavior: Taxis (Complete in this period) |
Text 39.3 Read and Bring AP Lab Manual pg. 145 - 150 Optional: Ladybird Terrorists |
Class 3 | No Class - Spring Break Begins!!! |
No School - SPRING BREAK!! |
INTERACTIONS: SENSORY & RESPONSE SYSTEMS, BEHAVIOR & ECOLOGY Binder Pages: Unit 11 |
Week 29: March 30 - April 3 Welcome back!! (Saturday is prom) |
Class 1 | The Nervous System: The Neuron: Anatomy, Resting Potential, Action Potential & the Synapse (Binder pg. 281+) The Neuron ppt |
Text 37.1, 37.2, 37.3 Watch Bozeman's Nervous System; Watch Chemical synapse (1 min); Watch Bozeman's the Neuron, Resting Potential and Nerve Impulse Mechanism (4 min - Med. Animations) OPTIONAL: Bozeman's The Electrochemical Gradient Optional: Bozeman's The Synapse & The Action Potential |
Lab 1 | Lab: Muscle Contraction & Fatigue (Binder pg. 319-322) Muscle Contraction ppt |
Text 31.1 (640 - 641) and/or Watch Pearson's Animation of (1) The neuromuscular junction, (2) the Excitation of the Muscle Fiber and (3) The Cross Bridge Cycle (Total time about 10 min.) Do The Action Potential Binder pg. 285 (if we have discussed); Read: Making the most of muscle oxygen |
Class 1 | Communicating between Neurons and Muscles (Synapse) Muscle Contraction at Cellular Level (Binder pg. 311+) Choose the questions to evaluate from the muslce data. |
Text 37.4 (pg. 793-4 only), 39.1 ; Watch Bozeman's the Muscular System: use Binder pg. 309 with this 6 min video and watch Muscle Contraction Process (4.5 min.-Med. Animations) |
Lab 2 | Lab: Plant Responses: Dandilion Demo of phototropism (Need Handout) if Dandilions are available; Discuss Phototropisms & Photoperiodism (Binder 325+) Plant Responses ppt |
Text 31.1 (pg. 650-2 only), 31.3; |
Class 3 | Plant Response: Phototropisms & Photoperiodism (Binder pg. 325+) Plant Responses ppt Work on Data Analysis for Muscle Contraction Lab |
Text 31.2 Use Binder pg. 323 as you watch Bozeman's Mechanisms of Timing (10 min); |
Week 30: apr. 6 - 10 |
Class 1 | Animal Behavior Topics Behavior & Abiotic Factors ppt Quorum sensing in Bacteria - Cell communication using local regulators; infomration transmitted by signal transduction pathway |
Text 39.3-39.4; Watch Bozeman's Animal Behavior Work some on your muscle lab graphs report Optional: Animal Mind control by Parasites; Nice; Listening to Bacteria Work some on your lab report |
Lab 1 | LAB: Analyze Behavior Case Study(Kin selection of Belding's Squirrel - Binder pg.335+); More Animal Behavior videos |
Make one bar graph (with error bars) and one line graph (with regression line and R2 value) from muscle contraction/fatigue data. Text 39.6 |
Class 1 | Population Growth & Regulation Populations ppt | Text 40.3 and 40.4 Watch Bozeman's r and K Selection |
Lab 2 | LAB: Simpson's Diversity Index Choose one Biome and one human intrusion for application of concepts presentation; LAB: Begin to construct Biome Presentations (Google Doc/Triples) - Binder pg. 345 |
Text 41.2, 41.4, 41.5 |
Class 3 | Population Growth & Regulation (Possible extension: Habital Planet: Interactive Labs: Disease Lab (a simulation)) (Binder pg. 349+) Populations pptEquations of Population Growth; Life Histories; Human Population Growth (Binder pg. 353 (intro problems), 355 and 357+ (many problems)) Populations ppt | Text 40.5 and 40.6 Watch Bozeman's r and K Selection Work some on your biome sllides |
Week 31: apr. 13 - 17 (3 days: Wed - Health Day & Fri - Skip Day) |
Class 1 | Energy flow in ecosystems: Food chains & Webs (Binder pg. 367-369); Ecosystem Processes ppt | Text 41.2, 42.1, 42.2 Do Intro to Population Problems (Binder pg. 353 #1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10 (part b is asking for the net change in the population size) Answers will be posted HERE Do Applying Concepts to Cactus Finch (Binder 355-356) Answers will be HERE; Optional: Mr. Knuffke's Prezi on Ecosystem Structure |
Lab 1 | AP Lab #10: Energy Dynamics & Primary Productivity - Design an Experiment (Binder Pg. 371-374) Lab Primary Productivity ppt | Text 42.3 Try Population Growth Practice Problems (Binder 357+ #4, 5, 9 Make 2 slides/person for your biome presentation |
Class 2 | No Classes: Senior Health Day | No Classes Today - Work on your Biome Presentation |
Lab 2 | AP Lab #10: Energy Dynamics & Primary Productivity (follow-up); Measure D.O. Lab Primary Productivity ppt (Possible extension: Habital Planet: Interactive Labs: Disease Lab (a simulation)) |
Watch Bozeman's Ecosystems; Make 2 slides/person of your Biome presentation; Try Population Growth Practice Problems (Binder 357+ #6, 7, 9, 10, next are m.c. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18-21 graph changes) Answers will be posted here |
Class 3 | No School for Seniors: Senior Skip Day |
No School |
Week 32: Apr 20 - 24 (potpourri Week) |
Class 1 | Evaluate Data from AP Lab Energy Dynamics (Binder pg. 377) Energy Flow, Food Chains, & Food Webs Do Practice Energy flow Problems (Binder p. 379) Communities & Succession ppt |
Make 4 slides per partner of your Biome presentiation. Optional: Mr. Knuffke's Prezi on Community Interactions |
Lab 1 | Videos: Community Structure: (Binder pg. 381-382) Complete Succession and discuss Interelationship Examples Communities & Succession ppt |
Text 41.1 Complete lab report on primary productivity (Binder pg. 371-374) - explained in class; Watch Bozeman's Populations (on Population interactions) and Niche and Aposematic Coloration Make 2 slides per partner of your Biome presentation. |
Optional: Interesting story of Jerry Coyne, who has a botfly egg deposited on his head, on NPR's Radiolab (16 min). |
Class 2 | Succession |
Text 41.3 Watch Bozeman's Ecological Succession; Finish polishing your Biome Presentation; Optional: Deadly Algae in Water Supply 2014 |
Lab 2 | Lab: Group Presentations: Biomes & Human Intrusions in Ecosystems Review for test |
Finish your Biome Presentation; Optional: Global Warming - the Story Behind the Science and Mr. Knuffke's Prezi on Human Impacts and Prezi on Conservation Biology Another Human Intrusion: Drugging the Environment |
Class 3 | TEST: Unit #11; Chapters: 39.3-39.6, 40, 41, 42, 43 | Prepare for TEST: |
STUDY GUIDES | Response & Behavior Ch.31:Focus Questions: 31.3, 31.5, 31.6, Structure your knowledge: 2 (Draw this on the bottom of page 230) Multiple Choice: 7. 8, 12 Ch. 37: Focus Questions: All, Structure your knowledge: 1 (Write a description on the bottom of pg. 286) Multiple Choice: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15 Ch. 39: Focus Questions:39.1, 39.5, 39.6, 39.8 Structure your knowledge:1, 3 (Write on the bottom of pg. 304) Multiple Choice: 1, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, Ecology: Ch. 40: Focus Questions: 40.5 - 40.9 Structure your knowledge: 2 Matching: None Multiple Choice: All except 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 21, Ch. 41: Focus Questions: 41.1, 41.2, 41.3, 41.4 Structure your knowledge: 1, 2 (Writ eon pg. 328) Multiple Choice: All except 8, 14, 15 Ch. 42: Focus Questions: 42.2, 42.3, 42.5, Structure your knowledge: 1 and 2 (Write on hte bottom of page 328) Multiple Choice: 1 - 8 Ch. 43: Focus Questions: 43.1, 43.5, 43.7 Structure your knowledge: 4 (Write on a piece of paper) Multiple Choice: 1, 2 4, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 |
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OTHERS | Objectives for Test #11 Objectives for Unit #12 Working with Data: Nickel and plants; nicotine and plant defense; Eyes and Rods; Working with Data: Habitat Fragmentation, Wildlife Corridors, |
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ESSAYS | Response & Behavior: 23, 59, 146(d,e), 149, 158, 7, 8, 44, 60, 114b, 115, 130, 149, 164C, 178, 8, 44, 84c, 89, 122, 149, 155, 177, 8, 44, 84c, 89, 122, 149, 155, 177, 234, 241 Ecology: 1, 18, 23, 77, 95, 115, 131, 158, 160B, 208 (b), 168A, 179, 181, 186, 189, 208, 20, 26, 50a, 61a, 104 cd, 134, 159, 168A, 174, 10, 33, 50b-c, 61b-c, 104a, 148(a), 164, 204, 12, 45, 46, 76c, 73, 85, 92, 104b, 110, 118, 140, 151, 160C, 164B, 172, 184, 194, 221, 224, 231, 237, 242, 245 (long), 246 (long) , 247, 249, Review Essays 187, 190 |
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VIDEOS |
Mr. Anderson can walak you through - Resting Potential by Pacific Media and Action Potential by Medicine Animations - Why do your knuckels crack (explanation) and video? |
History: Recording an Action Poential by Hodgkin; Squid Axon Nerve Removal (MIT) |
REVIEW FOR THE AP BIOLOGY TEST - Separate Binder of Pages |
Week 33: April 27 - May 1 (MON.- LAST DAY FOR SENIORS; MAY PROJECTS BEGIN AP exams; Revew handouts coming; tues - no school) |
Class 1 | Discuss test structure |
Do the 2018 Practice Exam (Review Binder pages 109-168 multiple choice and calculation problems only). You may use resources if necessary to determine your answers. Write your answers on a scantron; put the calculation answers on the grid sheet. Here is the look of the AP Bio Test Booklet (2013) |
Lab 1 | No School; Break
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Do the 2017 Practice Exam (Review Book pages 169 - 227; ; multiple choice AND calculation problems) Write your answers on a scantron & grid sheet. |
Class 2 | Handback 2018 Practice Exam; Collect the 2017 and 2016 Practice Exam Scantrons and Grid Pages Meeting Time: |
Do the 2016 Practice Exam (review Book pages 228-280; multiple choice AND calculation problems) Write your answers on a scantron & grid sheet. |
Lab 2 | Hand back the 2016 & 2015 Practice Exams Meeting Time:
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Do the following: Come with a list of topics that you are least sure of. Go through your text book, your notes, your lab manual, your binders. What do you remember the least? Write the list down and give it to me tomorrow. I'll use it to plan the things we will cover on Friday. |
Class 3 | AP Bio Lab Review
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Do the 2019 Practice Exam ALONE, NO RESOURCES & TIMED, 90 minutes!! (review Book pages 65 - 108; multiple choice AND calculation problems; not the essays) Write your answers on a scantron & grid page. |
NEXT WEEK: Be Hardcore Bio |
Check out some of the review videos below. Try any remaining AP Exams I have given you. Study with a friend; ask one another questions. Sleep well Sunday night! Look at the remaining AP Bio Tests (answers will be distributed) |
Review Resources | Mr. Anderson goes over the new AP labs (Part 1 and Part 2) Mr. Anderson reviews: Homeostasis, Natural Selection, Speciation, Cell Communication, Some Free AP Bio Review Questions at https://www.learnerator.com (can also purchase an upgrade) and their new (2016) upgrade: https://www.albert.io/ap-biology Math Bench - Biology Modules Mr. Knuffle's Review Powerpoints - Nice Syntheses: Evolution, Matter, Energy, Information, Regulation, Communication, Interactions |
Week 34: May 4 - 8 (Bahe at Biology DreYland) - Prepare on your own |
Week 35: May 11 AP Bio test has finally arrived!! |
Mon., May 11 |
AP BIOLOGY EXAM 7:45 am -- in the ?????????? Room (probably MultiPurpose Room) Be on time - in fact, BE EARLY!! Bring pencils, pens and a watch!! Bring a good calculator and extra batteries. Bring a snack for the break time. |
Good Luck!! |