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May 9th, 2015 - Dear Students, this should be our last update for year, so pay close attention to the instructions that follow: 1. The AP Bio exam is Monday, May 11th at 7:30. Come at 7:15 and I'll have a donut for you. 2. Your class notebook and the 4 synthesis questions are due sometime on Monday either in my car in the morning or my classroom. Both count as a test grade. 3. To the right are two documents: 1. Our final four synthesis questions are posted here in case you weren't in class to pick up a copy. In addition, Fitz C. has made a study guide and converted it to pdf format for us. I have not had a chance to look through for mistakes it but it looks good and I thank Fitz for a great deal of work here. 4. To the right are a couple of Bozeman videos on basic statistics - I'd watch them at some point although keep in mind that you don't have to calculate standard deviation. There is also a short one on the nervous system. 5. Use your resources! Holtzclaw, Bozeman, mastering biology study area 6. For practice quizzes you can go to getafive.com our code is QXDYAH3 04/23/15: I have put the powerpoint on eukaryotic regulation of gene expression to the right.
04/21/15: I have put today's powerpoint to the right. :) Homework: An Epigenetics Case Study When a Gene Turned Off is a Matter of Life or Death 1. Read the introductory information from the case study handout. You can print it from here or I will have some copies in class. 2. Watch the tutorial animations and Videos to the right; review Ghost in Your Genes if you would like. 3. Using the websites listed on the handout answer the questions. Bell 5 Microbe topics:
LA. - Syphilis, T.B. - Typhoid Fever, D.B. - Ebola, R.C. - Rhino Virus, O.E. - HIV, A.E. - Bubonic Plague, G.H. - Gonorrhea, L.J. - Cholera, B.K. - ???, E.L. - Naegleria fowleri (a type of amoeba), S.M. - Leprosy, M.P. - MRSA, S.R. - Tuberculosis, K.S. - African Sleeping Sickness Bell 7 Microbe Topics:
L.A. - Syphilis, ;L.B. - Marburg, K>B>M> - Taenia solium, A.B. - ???, M.B. - Epstein-Barr Virus (mono), A.C. - Yellow Fever, J.C. - ???, F.C. - Ebola, R.G. - malaria parasite, C.J. - ???, S.K. - ???, T.L. - Streptococcus, P.M. - Dengue Fever, D.R. MRSA, I.S. - HIV, K.W. - Bacillus cereus, E.W. - Cholera, A.W. - African Sleeping Sickness. Bell 8 Microbe Topics: D.A. - Hanta virus, K.C. - Giardia, H.M. - Yersina pestis (black plague), A.M. - ???, J.M. - Meningitis,J.N. - Polio, T.N. - Nipah virus, R.A. - Ebola, L.R. - MRSA, T.T. - SARS Spring Break Update:
1. Up-coming test: Thursday, 4/16 or Friday, 4/17 * All questions are from the Holtzclaw Book * Go to Mastering Bio, Bozeman Science or McGraw Hill for additional help for topics * The test coversTopics 1 - 4, Topic 6, Topic 10 and pages 293 - 315 (all in the Holtzclaw Book). 2. Several Mastering Biology assignments have been set. If you score 95% or better you don't have to do the adaptive follow-up (you'll automatically be given the 10 points for the follow up). If you score less than 95% then you will be given additional problems to work. 3. Microbe presentations: We'll start presentations on Monday and will do 3 per day (except for test day) until we have heard all of the projects. Get some rest and be ready to work hard for the next 5 weeks and then it will all be over!!!!! Yeah! TTFN 03.23.15: I have added one AP Insight quiz. It is due Thursday at 11 pm. Please email me or text if you don't have your user name and password. (Note: The link for AP Insight is above on this page). 03.22.15: Reading assignment: DNA and the Cell Cycle. Please print the assignment posted to the right. It gives directions for text book and mastering biology assignments for this week. There are three mastering biology assignments posted. Two are one problem skills exercises and the third goes with chapter 12 on the cell cycle. There is a fourth assignment which is remediation. If you have difficulties with the chapter 12 mastering biology then you will have to do the adaptive remediation assignment and it will be due two days after the due date for chapter 12. If you do well with the mastering biology chapter 12 assignment then you won't have to do that assignment. None of these assignments are very long so please do not wait to the last minute. LLAP 03.09.15: Please sign up for the March 28, NMSI Saturday Session, ASAP. The Password is sss2014. My name is Debbie Allen so type that in the instructor space. (Click above on the word NMSI)
2/10/15: 1. I have added a mastering biology assignment for chapter nine. It is due on Saturday, Feb 14th, by 11pm. 2. I have added some animations for those of you who need help visualizing the processes of cell respiration. The links are to the right --> 3. We will have a quiz on 2/12 and 2/13 and a short test next week. My goal is to have shorter more frequent tests. 2/4/15 Homework and Class discussion: We have done a survey of the overall process of cell respiration in aerobic eukaryotes. Please watch the videos and animations posted to the right and read chapter 9 in your textbook. I have provided a reading guide to go with chapter 9. 1. Extra credit assignment: Prepare a one-pager that distinguishes the terms: convergent and coevolution, adaptive radiation, and analogous and homologous structures. Your one-pager should include pictures and / or diagrams, clearly distinguish between these sets of terms, and provide clear examples. This is due Monday 2/9/15. The page should be 8.5 by 11 and you may use any media to produce it. 2. If you have not done so already, you should review the Bozeman videos on feedback, matter exchange, and Life require free energy posted to the right. 01/09/15: The enzyme powerpoint that we are going over in class is posted to the right and is titled 31ch08enzymes2008. The powerpoint starts with a section on energetics which we will discuss as soon as all the ap English testing is over.
01/07/15: In class - we will go over the test focusing on what information is needed to answer each question. Please do the videos and animations to the right for homework. Mastering biology ch 8 is due on Friday and ch 10 is due Saturday. Winter Break Assignment - is posted to the left along with a biome chart. Mastering biology assignments for chapters 52, 55, 8 and 10 have been posted.
Note: Mastering Biology may require you to install an updated version of Adobe Shockwave (I think it is version 12.1) in order to use it. You may need help from your parents in order to accomplish this so don't wait until the last minute. Also, there are three annoying add-ons. Read all of the fine print on each screen and uncheck the boxes for the google tool bar and for the Norton security scan unless you really want them. The update ends with an offer of additional software which you can ignore, so just close that window. Remember, the technical support number is on the home page for my website. Call them if you have questions or need help. All Mastering Biology assignments are due Wednesday, January 7th. Happy Holidays to you and your families. 12/14/14: Corrections: I have set a mastering biology assignment titled Water Potential. It is due Tuesday 12/16. Also, your Biochemistry and cell test will be Monday 1/5 and Tuesday 1/6. Next week I have a study guide I will give you as well as a Winter Break Packet. Sorry for the confusion I was clearly too sick to be updating my webpage.
12/01/14: In preparation for Lab 4 we'll be discussing the structure and function of cell membranes. Pay close attention to the relationship of structure to function. Ask yourself "How does the structure support the function or role of that structure?" To the right is two powerpoints in one: Part A is Cell membrane structure and function and Part B is movement or transport of materials across membranes. 11/25/14 Work for Thanksgiving weekend: When you get back from break we are going to do the Osmosis and Diffusion lab (Lab 4, page 51 in your lab manual - AP Biology Investigative Labs 1. Please watch the Bozeman Video on the old Osmosis lab. It is only 7 minutes long. The over all process and data analysis of our lab will be the same. 2. Go to page S51 in your AP Biology Investigative Labs Manual. In the lab section of your class notebook add a page that has the following: 1. Title of the lab 2. In a section called Background do the following: a. write the water potential equation and define each component of the equation. b. Look at your formula sheet and write out the equation for solute potential (-iCRT) and define each component (include units) c. Make an outline or summarize the most important points from the Understanding Water Potential Section. d. Answer the getting started questions on page S54-S55. e. Answer the following questions: * Why is it important for an IV solution to have salts in it? * What would happen if you were given pure water in an IV? *How would you determine the best concentration of solutes to give a patient in need of fluids before you introduced the fluids into the patient's body? f. Think about how to design an experiment measuring rates of diffusion and osmosis. All of the above needs to be in your notebook when you come to class on 12/1 or 12/2. Happy Thanksgiving Break! Homework for 11/24 and 11/25: See HO to the right. Being absent on Thursday or Friday of this last week will not be an acceptable excuse for not having your homework. Note: I have fixed the links to the Bozeman Videos - please watch them. Have a nice weekend and TTFN LLAP! 111414 - 111714: By this time you should be well on your way to finishing mastering biology assignments for cell structure and function and membrane structure and function (chapters 6 and 7). Several of you have not started chapter 7 and a couple have not begun chapter 6. You all will have a quiz over the structure and function of cell organelles and basic membrane structure when I get back and we have two labs planned so please be prepared with background information from these chapters. Your test prep books are enormously helpful with these two chapters. By the way I met the Holtzclaw's yesterday (the authors of your test prep book) and they are both amazing and very funny! The videos linked at the right will also help and are short but good. TTFN Have a good weekend. 11.12.14 - 11.13.14: You will be meeting at the Maury Library for the next two class periods. For today please go to mastering biology and do the assignment on cell structure and function. Have a nice day. For DNA Lab links and gene sequences hover over the AP Biology tab on the navigation bar above and click on DNA Sequences and web resources
103114: Happy Halloween. Your assignment for today is to go to mastering biology and start the work there. You have all bell to deal with chapters 2,3,4 and 5 which cover basic chemistry, properties of water, and the characteristics of water. Pay careful attention to the due dates and don't fall behind (Sunday is daylight savings time! We "fall back" one hour.) Grab a textbook, spread out throughout the room and start with chapter two - using the text to help you. Put the texts back at the end of the bell and bell 7 return the laptops neatly and plugged in. TTFN and LLAP Do NOT waste your time here! 102614: 1. Chapter 26 has been extended to the 30th. So if you had questions you didn't answer you should be able to finish. 2. For Bell 8 - the link to the Short Video on Stickleback Evolution is to the right. If you didn't pick up the handout that goes with it I posted it to the right. Please be prepared to turn this in on Tuesday 10/28. Thanks TTFN LLAP 101914: You have the following coming up (days are dependent on your bell): 1. Mastering Biology chapter 26 has been assigned and is due at 11:30pm, Friday 10/24. Yes I know that is homecoming so let's get this one done ahead of time. 2. Investigation 2 is due Monday or Tuesday 3. The Mutation homework and the 2 cladograms are due Monday or Tuesday. 4. You will have a quiz on speciation on Monday or Tuesday. The powerpoint we used in class is to the right. Main ideas include reproductive isolation, adaptive radiation, sympatric and allopatric speciation, pre-zygotic and post-zygotic isolating mechanisms (your textbook has an awesome table on this), and polyploidy is on there twice. Polyploidy happens in plants where some of them will accumulate sets of chromosomes so instead of being diploid they might be triploid or tetraploid. This leads quickly to sympatric speciation. 5. Please bring a jump or thumb drive as we will start your first lab - Yeah!! 6. Bells 5 and 7: a. see the Mudskipper YouTube vid you missed because of time! Link on the right. b. your chi square homework is due tomorrow (Friday 10/17) 7. Bells 5 & 7 if you didn't finish the identification of the fossil lab from lab manual pages 44-45 - for the analysis you are following my instructions on the handout. I have uploaded the handout on the left. This is due next bell! TTFN and LLAP |
RESOURCES, Links, and DOCUMENTS
Last of the Bozeman Videos (although I suggest you do a survey of them):
Statistics and Graphing The Nervous System
Good luck on your preparation and tell your moms happy mother's day for me.
That's all Folks! LLAP Sign up HERE for the next NMSI Saturday session - yes you get extra credit for attending! The password is sss2014. TTFN :)
Case Study Resources: When a Gene Turned Off is a Matter of Life and Death
Learn Genetics: Epigenetics animation (1:47) Insights from Identical Twins (4:41) This one is really good! Disease and Mutation: DNA Damage (1:05) Epigenetics Tutorial - a technical look at methylation and acetylation (from youtube so this might not work in school) (2:13) Bozeman on the history of the discovery of DNA Bozeman on Replication PBS: Ghost in Your Genes - short film on epigenetic research Go to McGraw-Hill Animations, Scroll down to ch. 14 and watch all four animations BioInteractives Replication Animation
Bozeman Videos on Matter Exchange, Biochemical Pathways, Free Energy
Bozeman: Positive and Negative Feedback Mechanisms Bozeman: Environmental Matter Exchange (Biogeochemical Cycling) Bozeman: Life Requires Free Energy
McGraw-Hill Animations
3-D Cell respiration for those of you who need additional help Glycolysis Electron Transport Chain (ETC) YouTube: The Cell Respiration Song Bozeman Videos on Respiration and Photosynthesis Gibbs Free Energy Respiration and photosynthesis Lab: Respiration Bozeman Video on Regulation of the Cell Cycle
01/07/15: For Homework - due next bell
Bozeman Video - Enzymes Biochemical Pathway Animation Feedback Inhibition of a Biochemical Pathway Bozeman Video - Enzyme Catalase Lab - do the worksheet from the link below the video main page.
Bozeman on Osmosis and Diffusion
Animation: The action of lysosomes - see if you can identify all of the organelles in the animation. Can you explain the purpose and process of hydrolytic enzymes.
Animation: Endocytosis and Exocytosis Vid Clip: The Inner Lives of Cells Bozeman Science Videos for AP Biology that are helpful for biochemistry, cell structure and membrane structure and function: Biological Molecules Cell Organelles Membrane Structure and Function Cellular Variation Stickleback Evolution - a HHMI Biointeractive Short Film from the The Making of the Fittest - Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies The handout the goes with the film is just below:
Mudskipper Video Think in terms of all of the challenges of being a fish out of water and the adaptations that allow these crazy animals to be successful. Enjoy :)
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101314 Homework Reminder:
1. Investigation 2 in the lab manual - be sure to send a screen shot or bring me a copy of your final product. Be sure to save often so that you don't have to start over. 2. Do "Evolution of Flight in Birds" and "What does T-Rex Taste Like" from lab 3, pg 44. Be sure to send me a screen shot of the final product. (You do not have to do the "project" in Evolutionof Flight in Birds). Both are DUE by Thursday or Friday of this week. 100514: On the right find the answers and explanations to both of the Hardy-Weinberg homework sets I gave out early last week. The explanations are well written so if you are making mistakes pay careful attention to why. I have also put links to Bozeman videos that will support our work this week. You will have a quiz next bell on HW (Monday and Tuesday). The next bell after we will have a quiz on chi square (Wednesday and Thursday). The next week we'll have a TEST over HW and Chi Square (10/16 & 10/17). I'll be after school this coming week on M, W, Th, and Friday. 092614: Mastering Biology has been updated: chapter 24 is due next Tuesday and 25.1, 25.2, and the last section of chapter 25 are due on Wednesday, all by 11:30pm. We've been discussing the powerpoint Mechanisms of Evolution (available to the right). Our primary area of focus are the three mechanisms that can change allele frequency in a population: 1. natural selection, 2. genetic drift, and 3. gene flow. Please be sure you have a clear understanding of those concepts. Thursday and Friday of this week we took a quiz on Hardy-Weinberg. If you missed this quiz you need to come in ASAP and take it - on your lunch or quickly after school would be fine. Have a lovely weekend.
092314: We worked the NMSI Hardy-Weinberg problems today (1-12). I have posted the answer document in the box to the right. We began our discussion of the Mechanisms or Forces of Evolution with a look at the BBC's Planet Earth segment on the Birds of Paradise. You can find this clip on youtube. Please consider the great variety of phenotypes you saw among the different species of Birds of Paradise. I have uploaded the powerpoint in pdf format in the box to the right and would like to credit Kim Foglia for producing that powerpoint. Homework Update: We are working in chapter 22, 23, and 26. Mastering Biology homework chapter 22 is due tonight and chapter 23 is due Thursday. |
Five Fingers of Evolution - a TEDEd Talk by Paul Anderson - use this to explore a quick way to remember the 5 factors that contribute to changes in allele frequency in populations (microevolution)
The following are required for AP Biology this week: Speciation - by Paul Anderson (Bozeman for AP Biology) Speciation and Extinction - by Paul Anderson Evidence for Evolution - by Paul Anderson Chi Squared Test - by Paul Anderson Note: Bozeman Videos are usually between 5 - 15 minutes long. Bozeman on Hardy-Weinberg - If you still need HW help Answers and explanations to the Hardy-Weinberg Homework Problems:
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092014: Welcome to AP Biology Today. I'm not going to try to recap all of the classes to date but will focus on where you all need to be at this time. Mastering Biology: Finally every one is signed up. Go ahead and do the Introduction assignment. I will give you all full credit no matter when you all entered the class and do the assignment. New Assignments: I have added homework assignments for chapter 22 and 23. Chapter 22 is due on Tuesday 9/23 and 23 is due 9/25 Remember, the day they are listed on the Mastering Biology calendar is the day they are due - so please don't wait until the last minute. When I post assignments I will announce them in class and send them out on Remind 101. Hardy-Weinberg Problems: Assignment: problems 1-12. The following is a link to a vimeo (web cast) that explains each problem. Bells 5 and 7, these are the problems you received inclass on Friday; Bell 8 - you all will receive these problems on Monday. Strategy: Work the problems and if you feel you're having trouble then check the vimeo (there are two links in case you have trouble w/ one).
EduTube: Hardy-Weinberg Problems Vimeo or Vimeo: Hardy-Weinberg Vimeo
Reading guides for chapter 22 and 26 will be due next week. Ch. 22 is due on Tuesday or Wednesday (depending on when you have class). Chapt 26 is due Thursday or Friday.
Current Reading: Chapters 22, 23, and 26
It is nice to finally be in touch with you all. Please bring your questions to class and don't forget I am available during your bell 6 lunch and every day after school except Tuesdays.
EduTube: Hardy-Weinberg Problems Vimeo or Vimeo: Hardy-Weinberg Vimeo
Reading guides for chapter 22 and 26 will be due next week. Ch. 22 is due on Tuesday or Wednesday (depending on when you have class). Chapt 26 is due Thursday or Friday.
Current Reading: Chapters 22, 23, and 26
It is nice to finally be in touch with you all. Please bring your questions to class and don't forget I am available during your bell 6 lunch and every day after school except Tuesdays.