AP BIOLOGY PERIOD 1
WEDNESDAY 4/15/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Prepare for doing the D.O. Lab by examining the on-line Prentice Hall Lab#12
-Answer the following on separate paper before coming to class on Thursday:
1. What does the [O2] of water tell us about it's quality?
2. How does O2 get into water? (2)
3. What physical factors affect [O2] in water? (3)
4. What biological factors affect [O2] in water? (2)
5. Is [O2] in water UNIFORM or VARIABLE? Explain.
6. What is a NORMAL [O2] in water? What is a STRESSFUL [O2] in water? Why?
7. What are the differenced between [O2] in water and [O2] in air?
-The lab questions and data and these questions will all be collected on Friday.
-Period 1: You do not have class on Friday. Please, drop off your work to me in the morning. Thanks, Mrs. P.
TUESDAY 4/14/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Plant Quest tomorrow for 1/2 of the class.
-Read the lab handouts on Dissolved Oxygen. What factors affect D.O.?
-Answer essay question #72 - Kara picked this one, not me.
MONDAY 4/13/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Write the steps you would include to trace the path of a water molecule from the soil, through the atmosphere and back to the soil.
-Read and be familiar with the concepts in 39.1
-Be preparing for the plants quest on Wednesday.
-Explain what NPP = GPP - R means.
-We will be doing the Dissolved Oxygen and Primary Productivity Lab #12 during this week. Go to the Prentice Hall Lab Bench site and DO the simulation activity before Thursday's class.
BUSINESS: Tuesday is course sign ups and a very short class. You will receive handouts on Dissolved Oxygen and Primary Productivity. You will be expected to know the factors that affect the amount of dissolved oxygen in a water sample and to have read the lab.
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WEDNESDAY 4/8/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Be able to explain alternation of generations. How are moss and fern alternation different? Pages 585 and 597 are good references. Page 592 is a good summary.
-Pages 576-7 are the main points of how plants evolved to live on land. Know these.
-Continue to do review chapters so you don't leave it all until vacation week.
-Be prepared to get some AP essays to work on in the coming days.
Let's plan for a plant test on next Wednesday, April 15.
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FRIDAY 4/3//09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Answer chapter 8 review packet questions. Place your answers on the review packet answer sheet.
-Read about animal behavior in your prep books. We will have little time to discuss this topic before the exam.
-Define transpiration. List some factors that you think could affect the transpiration rate of a plant.
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-This is a slight revision from Wednesday's assignment:
-DO as much of section 44.1 in your packet as you can make sense of. I will lecture on it on Monday, but you should familiarize yourself with it beforehand by looking in your text.
-Define hydrostatic pressure. How much blood is filtered by the human kidney each day? What do you think the word part "nephr" refers to?
-DO the nervous system handout given to you today.
-Be sure you are familiar with the main ideas and vocabulary of the on-line labs.
-The systems test will be on Tuesday and will include digestion, circulation, respiration, excretion, lab analysis, and possibly some neuron diagrams.
-Be caught up with your animal comparison booklet. This material is fair game for the test on Tuesday.
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WEDNESDAY 3/25/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-complete the activity handout for 42.2.
-What is the Bohr Shift?
-What is the pressure in capillaries? What % oxygen saturation of hemoglobin can exist in capillaries?
PLANNING AHEAD:
- I will lecture on the basics of osmoregulation, ch. 44, in your next class. You will be responsible for activities 43.1, 44.1, 45.1 by Monday. The chapters on immune system and endocrine system (hormonal regulation) you must do on your own.
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TUESDAY 3/24/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-Do the Prentice Hall on-line lab #10. The website is listed below.
-In the first experiment focus on the differing characteristics of veins and arteries as well as the questions that the lab asks you. Do the lab quiz.
-In the second experiment be able to discuss the differences in heart rate of an ectotherm vs. and endotherm under differing environmental conditions. Do the lab quiz that goes with this one also.
Hang in there! We're in the last phase, only 20 more class periods over the next 5 weeks. You can do this.
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TUESDAY 3/3/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-REad sections 24.1 and 24.2.
-Write examples of all the reproductive isolation examples on your handout.
-Read your prep book on this topic
-PLAN for a TEST on chs. 22-24 on Friday.
*Be careful to keep current. Remember you should have done the excretory system and need to do the functions and structures of the nervous system for this week.
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-check your end of chapter question that you did in class today.
-answer the Population problems on the handout. Turn in both th lab and the problem set together on Monday.
-plan for a quiz on common descent, natural selection, hardy-weinberg non-evolving pops, evolving population criteria and selection processes.
-reseach the excretory animal body system. What are it's functions and structures? What does osmoregulation mean? Do fish and mammals both osmoregulate?
-Next week's system will be the nervous system.
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THURSDAY 2/26/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-Calculate the final p and q values for the lab cases done today.
-Answer the lab questions 1-4 and 1-3
-Elaborate on your handout about evolving and nonevolving populations
-Read sections 23.3 and 23.4 heterozygote advantage
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MONDAY 2/23/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-Read section 23.1
-Own the 5 criteria for non-evolving populations put forth by Hardy and Weinberg
-Read the first two pages of the lab #8 handout (and answer the questions). Omit the ( ) if we did not get that far in class.
-Find 10-15 facts that you can understand about hemoglobin or other oxygen carrying molecule used by organisms. Place this information with your body systems notes.
FRIDAY 2/13/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-Finish the handout questions for the Cytochrome c activity.
-Bonus points for finding out whether or not prokaryotes use cytochrome c.
-Because your AP Exam is early in May you have to do some work over the vacation in order to cover the material you'll need to know. So, try to accomplish the following:
-Using your prep book and/or your textbook read about the following three organ systems: digestion, circulation, respiration. In your notebook describe (a) the functions of each system (b) the structures of each system.
-For the digestive system determine the route of food travel and the role of the small intestine.
-For the circulatory system determine the route of blood travel from the heart, through the body and back to the heart. What are the four places in the heart that are needed for the heart to be able to contract?
-For the respiratory system determine the route of air flow from the outside air until it reaches the bloodstream.
-Lastly, find out what you can about the molecule hemoglobin. What is its connection to the circulatory and respiratory systems?
-The assignment is straightforward so it shouldn't be too difficult to do.
-DO rest, get well if you've been sick, sleep late and otherwise enjoy the vacation. The days will have 1/2 hour more of sunlight in the afternoons by the time we get back!
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THURSDAY 2/12/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-What is cytochrome c? Would it be present in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes? Why or why not?
-It is difficult to see natural selection occur because it can take a long time. There are two actual cases of natural selection in your text in section 22.1. Read about these cases and be able to explain the process of n.s. based on these cases.
-Define species, population, microevolution and macroevolution.
-Differential reproductive success means what?
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WEDNESDAY 2/4/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-Start preparing for Monday's test on chapters 17, parts of 18, handout 11, handout 13, and lab 6.1.
-You may want to get ahead if you have time by going through lab 6.2 on the same website given yesterday. This lab is on electrophoresis.
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TUESDAY 2/3/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-Go to the site below. Read and do the lab activity 6.1 on transformation.
-Be sure to own the vocabulary.
-Be able to explain the process of transformation and how it contributes to genetic diversity.
http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab6/intro.html
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MONDAY 2/2/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-read the lab handout distributed in class today. Be ready to go to work on it in class.
-read anything in your prep books that has to do with genetic engineering.
-what are PCR, RFLP and Southern/Western Blot tests?
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friDAY 1/30/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-What are the two different viral reproduction options? What are the steps in each?
-what does T4 mean in the T4phage?
-Define restriction enzyme. Define plasmid.
-Read handout 13.1. Answer the 4 objectives on the first page and answer questions 2-6 of the concept check section.
-OWN the 3 methods of genetic transfer that occur in asexually reproducing bacteria.
-Read about viruses, bacteria and genetic engineering in your prep books.
BUSINESS:
We will be doing a genetic engineering lab next week.
Plan for a test on protein synthesis through genetic engineering by Thursday of next week.
Use your prep books with these topics in addition to what we focus on in the text.
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TUESDAY 1/27/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-Refresh your memory on the steps of cell signalling (wait)
-read the ch. 11 handout and answer the objective questions from the first page in your notebook. Be able to answer the questions at the end.
-What is the HOX gene? (wait)
-Define: transformation, transduction and conjugation in terms of how genetic material is transferred between organisms.(wait)
-Draw a diagram and label the parts of a bacterium and a virus.(wait)
-For the lab handout, answer questions 1-7 of the background section.
You may use whatever resources you like to answer the questions.
We will make a model of the lac operon on Wednesday.
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MONDAY 1/25/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-Answer the Scientific Inquiry Question at the end of chapter 17.
-Read section 17.7 about mutations.
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FRIDAY 1/23/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-Read the captions of all the diagrams in section 17.4
-Read the few paragraphs in sections 17.5, 17.6
-Answer the self quiz questions at the end of the chapter 1-10, skip #9
-Reread your prep books relating to protein synthesis
THURSDAY 1/22/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-Read sections 17.2 and 17.3 in your text.
-Read about protein synthesis in your prep books.
-View your CD and look at the activities associated with 17.1 - 17.4
-Complete the handout given in class today
WEDNESDAY 1/21/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-Read section 17.1
-Answer the concept check questions for 17.1
-View the animations associated with the protein synthesis link listed below.
FRIDAY 1/16/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING</b
-Be able to draw and label the DNA Replication process from scratch including all enzymes
-Be comfortable with the end of the chapter questions
-Be sure your packet is complete
-If you want to look at the animation again, the site is below.
WEDNESDAY 1/14/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Finish the replication diagram on p. 1 of handout.
-Answer all questions EXCEPT # 14 on handout.
-Read section 16.2 to pick up info not gone over in class today.
-List the differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes and dna replication.
We will finish the chapter next class.
TUESDAY 1/13/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Answer CC questions for section 16.1
-Read up to p.302 and be able to explain what semiconservative means
MONDAY 1/5/09
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Welcome to 2009! We have great bio learning ahead.....
-Read/notes on 15.1, 15.2. 15.2 may be a bit confusing. If it isn't great. If it is, do your best and try to figure out the concept check questions. We'll have lots of practice on Wed.
-The TEST on chs. 13, 14, 15 will be on Friday.
WEDNESDAY 12/1/08
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Read section 14.4 to help you answer the questions in the new Pedigree Packet.
-Look for questions at the end of the chapter in Testing Your Knowledge that may match the ones in your packets that you have questions about. Look up the answers in the back of the book. We will address lingering questions tomorrow.
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TUESDAY 12/16/08
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Read section 14.3 in your text.
-Finish any questions not completed in your packet.
-Read the Chi Square Lab info. What is chi square?
-If Mrs. Keating gave you an AP Guide today, be sure to read it.
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MONDAY 12/15/08
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Read section 14.2 in your text. Try the concept check questions 1-3 on p. 260.
- Answer questions 6-8, 10, 13-15 in your packets.
-NO NAKED BOOKS - Ask Santa for bookcovers!
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FRIDAY 12/12/08
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Answer #s 1-4, 9 in your genetics packet.
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WEDNESDAY 12/10/08
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Read section 14.1. Be sure to be comfortable with all the vocabulary - ok, I really should say "OWN" the vocab. All of this section should be familiar to you from intro biology.
-What were the 7 traits that Mendel studied? Which form of the trait is dominant?
MONDAY 12/8/08
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Finsh reading chapter 13 and answer the self-quiz ?s at the end of the chapter.
-Go to the on-line lab #3 on Meiosis through the Prentice Hall link below.
-Do the second portion of the lab on meiosis and sordaria. Answer the questions as you go. Print them and bring them to class.
-Answer the following in your notebook: What is/are a. sordaria b. asci c. ascospore d. a map unit ? How do you calculate how far apart genes are on chromosomes?
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WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY 12/3-4/08
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Finish green and blue handouts on mitosis.
-Name and define the 3 major steps in Cell Communication or Cell Signaling. (ch. 11)
-What are the different ways cells can communicate or signal one another? Use the figures and captions in the beginning of ch. 11 to help you.
-OWN figure 11.5.
-How can an EXTRACELLULAR molecule affect DNA? See fig. 11.6
-Which phase of cell communication is highlighted in fig. 11.8?
-What is the "second messenger" idea all about? What is cAMP? pp. 210-1
-Let's consider a FRIDAY quiz on this week's work.
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TUESDAY 11/25/08
ACTIVE READING AND WRITING
-Try accessing the site using your new name code and password.
-The essay on photosynthesis and respiration will be available on Sunday from ___ to ____. See below and click on the quiz link. You will get to sign in, but you will not be allowed into the essay until it is unlocked.
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