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Mon 10/28:   Introduce Classification.  Dichotomous Key action alongside fish, done inwards pairs.  Then, equally a pair, yous should brand your ain dichotomous fundamental to organize x objects of your choice.  They tin last animals, songs, books, characters, people, etc. Wed 10/30:  Last Beak  quiz (Chapters 10-12).  Lab identifying organisms from half dozen dissimilar invertebrate phyla.  Introduce cladograms. Fri 11/1:  Making cladograms using amino acid sequences from on-line databases.

Monday 11/4:  SPARK Lecture on Sensing Sound today at 3:30 inward 169. Tues 11/5:  Dichotomous Key due for sixth (Thursday for seventh period).  Exchange keys.  Questions on Molecular Evidence WS?  Finish in addition to plough in.  Go to Computer Lab to produce on-line Cladogram Activity.  Hand out Evolution Review. Thur 11/7:  Deadline for whatsoever belatedly operate for the quarter.  Finish on-line Cladogram activity.  Start going over Evolution Review.  Test side past times side Midweek in addition to Thursday. Friday 11/8:  Teacher Work Day.  No School.  SPARK write upwards tin hold upwards turned inward using turnitin.com through today. Mon 11/11:  Veteran's Day.  No School!!

I promise you lot are enjoying your calendar week off from school!  Remember that you lot withdraw to complete the "Joe Eats a Burger" information tabular array for Monday 12/2 too you lot should accept a enquiry enquiry too excogitation for information taking for the Populations Lab (see documents if you lot don't accept it) past times Midweek 12/4.  Also retrieve to snuff it your Cadaver Field Trip flat signed past times 12/4. Mon 12/2:  Turn inwards Joe eats a burger.  Notes on villi too microvilli.  Overview of digestive enzymes.  Start Circulatory System worksheet.  Quiz on components of the total too blood menses on Friday.  Finish reading Chapter 41 too starting fourth dimension 42. Wed 12/4:  Turn inwards Cadaver Field Trip Form.  Turn inwards enquiry plans for Populations Inquiry.  Blood menses through the heart.  Include chambers of the heart, valves, of import vessels.  Difference betwixt arteries, veins, t...

Mon 12/9:  Cadaver Lab Field Trip!  Be inwards cast yesteryear 11:40-11:45, in addition to thence nosotros tin transportation away assemble to leave.  Bring something to eat, your Tri-Met pass, in addition to warm clothes. Wed 12/11:  Class cancelled due to Snow Day. Fri 12/13:  Feedback on Field Trip?  Check off Heart Worksheet.  Finish upwards Notes on the Circulatory System in addition to starting fourth dimension the Respiratory System.  Hand out Review Sheet for Digestion, Circulation, in addition to Respiration.  Read 42.5-42.7 Mon 12/16:  SPARK Lecture on Brain Cancer today.  Finish Respiratory System in addition to review the dissimilar systems. Wed 12/18:  Review for Digestion, Circulation, in addition to Respiration Test to get got on Friday. Fri 12/20:  Turn inwards Review.  Take Test.  Turn inwards Populations Lab (a difficult copy) in addition to a virtual re-create through turnitin.com. ...

It is too thence exciting getting all of your labs coming in!  Many of you lot convey asked most the turnitin.com data for this year.  The Class ID is:  7134730 too the Password is:  darwin Let me know if you lot convey whatever problems submitting your lab.  Enjoy the residue of your break! Ms. Kenny

I can't believe Winter Break is over, simply alas, it is.  That's okay because 2014 is going to hold out a slap-up year, the twelvemonth that yous graduate from high schoolhouse as well as displace on to exciting novel things! The deadline for slow operate as well as extra credit for this semester volition hold out Friday, Jan 17th.  It is coming upwards fast, as well as hence delight continue that inward mind. Mon 1/6:  Muscle Contraction Video as well as Muscle Contraction Worksheet.  Complete it for Wednesday.  Introduce Disease/Disorder Mini-Project.  Optional quiz on the bones of the human skeleton on Wed 1/8: Wed 1/8:  Optional os quiz.  Get Muscle Worksheet checked off.  More on musculus contraction.  Research for Disease/Disorder Project. Fri 1/10:  Dissecting chicken wings.  More on muscles, tendons, ligaments.  With leftover time, operate on project. Mon 1/13:  Turn inward fly dissection worksheet i...

› Lab Should Include:   Question › Background › Short procedure › Data tabular array (observations, uncertainty) › Data processing, calculations, tests, graphs? › Conclusion › Evaluation:  at to the lowest degree three uncertainties/limitations together with three suggested improvements to procedure You volition become points for Question, Background, together with Short Procedure, simply volition non locomote assessed on IB criteria for these parts (Design).  You WILL locomote IB assessed inward Data together with Data Processing together with Conclusion together with Evaluation. Final Lab should locomote turned inward equally a difficult re-create together with through turnitin.com

Long fourth dimension no see!  Come prepared to direct maintain a curt Biochemistry exam on Midweek 2/12.   Wed 2/12:  Short biochemistry quiz.  Finish AIDS/Vaccination worksheet too become over.  Immunology Quiz on Friday.  Get Group IV Project Field Trip cast signed correct away!  By Fri please!  Fri 2/14:  Turn inwards Antibiotic Lab.  Immunology Quiz.  Start Excretion/The Kidney.  Start reading Chapter 44. Mon 2/17:  President's Day.  No School.   Wed 2/19:  Group IV Project.  Check scientific discipline classroom doors for your grouping too motility into at the appropriate room past times 8:10 on Wed.  You volition move busy alongside this projection all day!  Be prepared to move an active squad member. Thurs 2/20:  This is the get-go scheduled twenty-four hr catamenia of the Teacher Strike.  If things haven't been settled past times then, delight depository fiscal estab...

  6.3  Immunology 6.3.1 Define pathogen. 6.3.2 Explain why antibiotics are effective against bacteria exactly non against viruses. 6.3.3 Outline the component of peel together with mucous membranes inward defense forcefulness against pathogens. 6.3.4 Outline how phagocytic leucocytes ingest pathogens inward the blood together with inward trunk tissues. 6.3.5 Distinguish betwixt antigens together with antibodies. 6.3.6 Explain antibody production. 6.3.7 Outline the effects of HIV on the immune system. 6.3.8 Discuss the cause, transmission together with social implications of AIDS. 11.1 Defence against infectious disease  11.1.1 Describe the procedure of blood clotting. 11.1.2 Outline the regulation of challenge together with response, clonal alternative together with retentiveness cells every bit the solid pose down of immunity. 11.1.3 Define active together with passive immunity. 11.1.4 Explain antibody production. 11.1.5 Describe the production of monoclon...

Fri 2/21:  Some notes on the human kidney.  Watch "Crash Course Excretion Video".  Kidney simulation on computers.  Color Kidney (1st side) together with Nephrons together with other minor parts (2nd side).  Read 44.3-44.5. Mon 2/24:  Functioning of a nephron.  Review Cell Topics for Quiz on Wednesday.  Finish coloring kidney. Wed 2/26:  Short Quiz on Cells (topics inwards previous post, emphasis on eukaryotic cells, prokaryotic cells, together with membranes).  Kidney Simulation alongside your group.  Practice together with and hence demonstrate to Ms. Kenny.  Review Kidney for Quiz on Friday. Fri 2/28:  Kidney Quiz (not a "test", simply longer than the jail cellphone review quiz on Wednesday).  Start homeostasis together with nerves past times working on Nerves, Homeostasis, together with Hormones Worksheet.  Do Nerve Impulse Computer Simulation.  Guess what?  We are having about other quiz on ne...

Mon 3/3:  Go over Resting Potential/Action Potential too Synaptic Transmission.  Work on Nerves too Hormones Worksheet.  Read parts of Ch 40, 45, too 48. Wed 3/5:  Get Nerves too Hormones WS checked off.  Homeostasis too Hormones.  Insulin too Glucagon.  Type I too Type II Diabetes.  Review topics for Cellular Respiration too Photosynthesis. Fri 3/7:  Nerves too Hormones Quiz.  Start Human Reproduction.  Roles of hormones inward the menstrual cycle!! Mon 3/10:   Draw too label diagrams of the manly someone too woman someone reproductive systems.  What fun for a Monday!  Start introducing inward vitro fertilization (IVF). Wed 3/12:  Finish IVF too verbalize over ethical issues.   Spermatogenesis too oogenesis.  Drawing a mature sperm too a mature egg.  . Fri 3/14:      More on spermatogenesis too oogenesis.  Fertilization.  The purpose of HCG inward early on pregnancy...

Mon 3/17:  No Cell Resp together with Photosynthesis quiz today or this week!  We volition commencement reviewing these of import topics this week, simply it doesn't appear to brand feel to quiz until nosotros convey reviewed some.  Last twenty-four hours for checking off Reproduction Coloring.  Function of the placenta, early on development, together with birth.  Reproduction Quiz/Short Test on Friday.  Mr. Minato is doing a SPARK lecture today at 3:30! Wed 3/19:  Review the Reproduction System together with review photograph together with prison theater cellular telephone respiration.   Fri 3/21:  Quiz/Short Test on Reproduction.  Review instructions for Spring Break.

Mon 4/7:  SPARK Lecture:   doc Peter Hurlin of Shriners Hospital for Children:  A Wholistic View on Embryonic Development, Evolution, too Cancer Tues 4/8: Turn inward Eye Dissection if non already.  Check off Eye too Ear coloring.  Structure too Function of parts of the Human Brain, sympathetic too parasympathetic control, educatee reflex, encephalon death, perception of hurting too endorphins.  Video on Einstein's Brain. Thurs 4/10:  More on neurotransmitters too synapses.  The effects of cocaine too THC.  Causes of addiction.  Practice data-based questions. Fri 4/11:  Teacher Work Day for End of third Quarter.

Welcome to the quaternary Quarter together with Your Last Quarter of High School!! (edited) Mon 4/14:  Types of animate beingness behavior.  Finish neurobiology information analysis questions together with evaluate using the IB Markscheme.   Wed 4/16:  Finish demeanour notes.  Video on Bees!   Plan for the side yesteryear side ii + weeks.   Finish neurobiology information analysis questions together with evaluate. Fri 4/18:  Review Topics for the IB Exam:  Mitosis/Meiosis, Genetics, Replication, Transcription, Translation, together with Enzymes.  Lactase together with lactose-free milk.  Group exam on Neurobiology side yesteryear side Midweek 4/25.

This is my best thought-out excogitation for prepping for the IB Exam, although at that spot may last things nosotros require to change.  I volition update this site equally that happens. Wed 4/16:  Wrap upward Behavior Notes.  Finish Data-Based Questions too evaluate. Fri 4/18:  Review topics for IB:  Mitosis/Meiosis, Genetics, Replication, Transcription, Translation, too Enzymes.  Also, nosotros volition comprehend the theme of lactase too lactose-free milk, which nosotros haven't talked virtually silent too is a frequent theme on IB exams.   Hand out Review for Neurobiology too Behavior grouping bear witness to last taken on Midweek 4/23. Mon 4/21:  Review topics for IB:  Biotech topics too plants.  Also, nosotros volition stimulate got whatsoever questions you lot stimulate got virtually Neurobiology too Behavior. Wed 4/23:  Neurobiology too Behavior Group Test.  I volition assign the groups of iii too you lot voliti...

Mon 5/19:  Submit innovation for your Body Response Group Lab.  Tend to your institute together with update institute journal. Wed 5/21 together with Friday 5/23:  Take information for Body Response Lab together with rootage writing it up.  Be a plain of written report for other testers!  Tend to your institute together with update institute journal. Wed 5/28:  Work on Body Response Poster.  Tend to your institute together with roll upwards journal. Fri 5/30:  Turn inwards Plant Journal.  Presentation of Group Posters. Tues 6/3:  Last Day of Class!  End of ii twelvemonth summative experience.

Add to Plant Journal:  Paragraph summarizing what you lot learned, what surprised you, what you lot would produce differently inward the future.  Plant magazine is due Fri, May 30th or Tues June third if you lot withdraw to a greater extent than time.  

This website volition hold upward a resources for yous every 2nd yous embark on ii years of higher flat IB Biology.  Here yous tin detect useful links, virtually degree documents, in addition to a fairly-well updated schedule of what nosotros are doing inward class.  Come hither offset if yous missy class, lose a hand-out, or simply can't scream upward what is due.  Feel gratuitous to email me at mkenny@pps.net if yous accept whatsoever questions at all.  I'm non connected to the spider web 24-7 similar many people these days, but I produce endeavour to response inside 12-24 hours.

Tues 9/2:  Introduction to class, fill upwards out Student Information Sheet, mitt out Safety together with Academic Honesty Contracts (due signed past times Tues 9/9), Demonstrate Early Work, Start Brine Shrimp Lab (counting cysts).  Bring TI-84 calculators this calendar week together with next. Thurs 9/4:  Review brine shrimp calculations.  Count alive shrimp together with calculate percentage hatching.  Hand out pregnant figure rules together with worksheet.  Go over calculating average together with incertitude together with counting sig figs together with produce 1-9, 18-20, together with the dorsum of the worksheet for Monday. Mon 9/8:  Characteristics of a expert graph.  Using LoggerPro to brand expert graphs.  Graph the information from the two information tables on the dorsum of the pregnant figure worksheet. Tues 9/9:  Turn inward signed Safety together with Academic Honesty contracts if non already.  Calculating alon...

Monday 9/15:  Making Frequency Distributions.  Continue working on the Statistics Packet, which volition live on due tomorrow.  I volition too banking concern gibe off the TI-84 Activity inward flat tomorrow. Tues 9/16:  Turn inward Statistics Packet.  Check off TI-84 Activity.  Questions on Statistics?  Questions on Classroom Expectations?  Chemistry Review done alongside flat text books. Thurs 9/18:  Finish Chemistry Review as well as plough in.  Water Olympics Lab.  Start Coloring inward Dictionary of Biochemical Building Blocks.  Statistics Quiz side yesteryear side Tuesday 9/23.

You should live on prepared to produce the following: Use a TI-84 figurer to come inwards two sets of data, honour touchstone departure as well as t-test.  You are responsible to know how to purpose the calculator--no instructions given! Describe the pregnant of touchstone departure as well as know what percentages of a sample are inside 1 as well as two touchstone deviations Find the publish of degrees of liberty as well as purpose this as well as a nautical chart of critical values to honour the critical value for two sets of data Interpret the pregnant of the t-test value! Calculate doubtfulness using the high-low divided yesteryear two method. Use information collected from a few quadrats to calculate the size of the whole (as you lot did inwards counting brine shrimp cysts) Count publish of important figures Compute as well as circular using the appropriate rules Propagate doubtfulness (one adding event as well as 1 multiplying example) Make sure enough that you lo...

Mon 9/22:  Finish Water Olympics Lab in addition to plow in.  Turn inwards Chemistry Review if non already.  Go over what is on Statistics Quiz.  Coloring Biochemical Building Blocks. Tues 9/23:  Take Statistics Quiz.  Continue Coloring.  Notes on carbohydrates, dehydration synthesis in addition to hydrolysis. Thurs 9/25:  Notes on Proteins in addition to Fats.  Continue coloring Biochemical Building Blocks.  Start edifice clay models.

Mon 9/29:  Finish clay models as well as link them into polymers/fats.  Almost complete the lexicon coloring.  Short Quiz tomorrow (know glucose, ii named amino acids, as well as how dehydration synthesis works).   Tues 9/30:  Add upward Early Work Set #1!  Short Quiz.  Notes on Nucleic Acids.  Building deoxyribonucleic acid molecules.  Molecular Modeling.  Finish lexicon coloring as well as larn checked off. Thurs 10/2:  Foods as well as nutrition.  BMI .   Building Bead Models of Nucleic Acids.  Complete hand-out equally nosotros larn as well as larn initials equally needed.  Hand out testing for unlike macromolecules inwards food.

Food Lab Write-Up (due Monday 10/13) Focused Question Data as well as Observations neatly presented (include initials of somebody who took data) Interpretation of results:  What nutrients are inwards each food?  How create y'all know? Discussion of Uncertainty/Limitations of this lab.  Be equally specific equally y'all can.

Mon 10/6:  Do tests for iv nutrient molecules.  Do a positive as well as negative exam for each as well as tape the results. Tues 10/7:  Testing iv dissimilar foods for all iv of the nutrient molecules.  Clean up.  Record data/observations from each person, including the initials of the someone who took the data.  Remember that this information tabular array needs to hold out your own.  No copying as well as pasting of others' information or sharing using google docs. Thurs 10/9:  Questions on Food Lab?  Due Mon 10/13.  Hand out Review for Biochemistry exam adjacent Tuesday 10/14.  Go over concepts that convey non all the same been covered (new syllabus material!!).  Start Cells!! Enjoy your 3-day week-end!!

Mon 10/13:  Turn inward Food Lab.  Go to majority room to drib dead text books!  Questions for Biochem Test tomorrow?  Continue working on Intro to Cells Worksheet. Tues 10/14:  Take Biochem Test.  Finish Cell Worksheet.  Comparison betwixt prokaryotic cells as well as eukaryotic cells. Thurs 10/16:  Begin Microscope Lab.  Make drawings of cork, elodea, as well as onion cells.

Mon 10/20:  Microscope lab:  drawing cells too calculating magnification. Tues 10/21:  More drawing cells!   Looking at bacteria through crude immersion lenses .  Cell Model Project due Th (includes the 3-D model too the written report). Thurs 10/23:  Set upward Cell Models on the tables too create a walk-around evaluation of the models. Oil Immersion Lenses too Bacteria.  Finish Microscope Lab too plow in.  

Mon 10/27:  Paramecia digesting yeast lab!  Watch what happens to the nutrient vacuoles inwards a paramecium equally they alter pH!  Turn inwards Microscope Lab if non already. Tues 10/28:  Start membranes.  What are the parts of a membrane?  Bubble Lab.  Examine the properties of membranes yesteryear working amongst bubbles. Enjoy your long week-end!  There is a SPARK Lecture on Mon 11/3.

There is a SPARK lecture Mon 11/3 at 3:30 inwards 169.  Go to acquire or become for extra credit.  Limit of i SPARK lecture per quarter.  The quarter ends on Friday.  The belatedly run for Extra Credit in addition to Late Work is Th 11/6 past times 3:30 pm. Mon 11/3:  Membrane proteins in addition to component of cholesterol.  Extra Credit Opportunities.   Tues 11/4:  Osmosis/Diffusion Lab.  Osmosis amongst onion cells.  Turn inwards Lab Hand-Out when finished. Thurs 11/6:  Deadline for Late Work in addition to Extra Credit.  Agar Cubes Lab.  The impact of Surface Area to Volume ratio on absorption inwards agar cubes.  Lab (data table, calculations, in addition to conclusion) due side past times side Th 11/13. Mon in addition to Tues 11/10-11/11:  No School!  Teacher grading twenty-four hours in addition to Veterans Day. Thurs 11/13:  Turn inwards Agar Cubes Lab.  Onion peel plasmolysis in ...

Neat information tabular array amongst units in addition to uncertainty Sample calculation of each type, showing work!  Surface area, volume, surface expanse to book ratio, book penetrated yesteryear NaOH, Portion of cube penetrated yesteryear NaOH Write a decision (see measuring eleven on lab) Staple all parts together in addition to plow inwards on Thurs 11/13

Mon 11/10:  Teacher Work Day.  No School!! Tues 11/11:  Veteran's Day.  No School!! Thurs 11/13:  Turn inward Agar Cubes/Cell Surface Area Lab.  Observe plasmolysis inward onion skin.  Data analysis assignment:  Diffusion together with Proteins inward Membranes.  Do inward degree together with plough in.  Hand out Review Sheet for Cell together with Membrane Test side past times side Th 11/20.   Snow Day!! Mon 11/17:  Turn inward Agar Cubes/Cell Surface Area Lab.  Observe plasmolysis inward onion skin.   Tues 11/18:  Data Analysis Assignment amongst plasma membrane models.  Complete together with Turn in.  Hand out Cell Review for Test side past times side Tues 11/25 together with starting fourth dimension working on it. Thurs 11/20:  Questions on Cell Review?  Jeopardy Review for Cell Test side past times side Tuesday.  The Jeopardy game including answers is linked to on this webs...

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Mon 11/24:  Any to a greater extent than questions on Cell Review?  Remember that the completed Review amongst outlined answers in addition to hand-drawn diagrams for the iii items that remove drawings is due BEFORE the examination tomorrow.  Start Cellular Respiration (start hand-out) Tues 11/25:  Turn inwards Cell Review.  Take Cell Test.  Work on Cellular Respiration worksheet until everyone is done amongst the test. Enjoy your long week-end!

Mon 12/1:  Brief notes on glycolysis as well as the link reaction.  Finish Cell Respiration worksheet as well as buy the farm it checked off (tomorrow ok besides for getting it checked off).  SPARK lecture on the marbled murrelet.  Read Chapter 9. Tues 12/2:  Finish checking off Cell Respiration Worksheet.  Notes on the Krebs (Citric Acid) Cycle as well as the Electron Transport Chain.  Introduce Metabolic Rate Lab as well as produce trials to employ the protocol.  Read Chapter 9. Thurs 12/4:  Take information for the Metabolic Rate Lab as well as hold upwardly into information into bird database.  Discuss lab write up, due earlier Winter Break through turnitin.com.  Review oxidative phosphorylation as well as the electron carry chain.  Read Chapter 9.

Background Info:  your background for your question.  Do non repeat the background I listed for the physical care for of the lab. Focused Question (says what you're doing, identifies variables) Variables identified (manipulated, responding, controlled-at to the lowest degree 5) Procedure: includes how variables are controlled, lay out of trials, in addition to plenty exceptional to follow Data:  organized, labelled, must calculate incertitude in addition to averages.  You become to alternative the information y'all operate from the shape databases, simply lay it inward your ain information tabular array format. Data Processing:  calculations (show 1 sample of each type), t-tests or correlations or both, graphs (avoid bar graphs, include incertitude bars) Conclusion (typically three paragraphs), explain/discuss results using information from the investigation, utter over sources of error/uncertainty, advise specific improvements for the sources of error/un...

Mon 12/8:  Some notes on photosynthesis.  Work on coloring worksheet. Tues 12/9:  Chromatography Lab alongside spinach.  Complete hand-out together with plough in.  Some notes on photosynthesis. Thurs 12/11:  Finish notes on photosynthesis.  Complete dorsum of coloring worksheet together with overstep away checked off.  Hand-out 9+10 Review for exam adjacent Thurs 12/18.  Work on review together with produce estimator simulations for photosynthesis.  Read the chapters this week-end!! Mon 12/15:  Questions on 9+10 Review?  Questions on Metabolic Rate Lab?  Start mitosis.  SPARK Lecture today on waves! Tues 12/16:  Jeopardy Review for 9+10 Test.   Thurs 12/18:  Turn inwards 9+10 review BEFORE test.  Take test.  Work on Mitosis worksheet. Remember to plough inwards a difficult re-create of your Metabolic Rate Lab likewise every minute turning it inwards through turnitin.com earlier 3:30 p...

Welcome back!  We stimulate got three weeks earlier finals, thence nosotros volition create 1 in conclusion brusk unit of measurement (mitosis together with meiosis), accept a brusk test, together with thence review for the Final Exam.  Remember that if you lot desire to create a Book Group for Extra Credit, you lot postulate to become organized!  Plan a fourth dimension to come upwardly inwards to hash out the mass past times Jan 23rd.  There is exclusively 1 remaining SPARK lecture this semester together with it is the kickoff twenty-four hr menstruum back, Monday, Jan 5th. Mon 1/5:  Go over phases of mitosis together with operate on Mitosis Worksheet. Tues 1/6:  Identifying phases of mitosis inwards Onion Root Tip slides.  Mitosis demonstration at your tabular array using yarn, string, together with chalk.  Finish Mitosis Worksheet together with plough in. Thurs 1/8:  Finish Mitosis activities.  Phases of Meiosis.   Start Rea...

Mon 1/12:  Notes on Crossing Over.  Start Creature Activity. Tues 1/13:  Make Creature Posters.  Hand dorsum 9+10 tests in addition to recollect.  Start Cell Regulation notes.  Hand out 12+13 Test Review in addition to Semester Review. Thurs 1/15:  Finish Notes on Cell Regulation.  Cell Regulation video.  Go over 12+13 Review in addition to get-go Semester Review. Mon 1/19:  No School inwards accolade of Martin Luther King Day. Tues 1/20:  Questions?  Take brusk Cell Division Test.  Review for Final Exam. Thurs 1/22:  Jeopardy Review for Final Exam. Fri 1/23:  Deadline for Late Work in addition to Extra Credit.  Book Groups need to hold upward submitted to Turnitin.com yesteryear midnight today. Mon 1/26:  Go over Final Grades.  Calculate what you lot need on the Final Exam to popular off your desired grade. Tues 1/27:  First piece of employment of Semester Final (Short Answer Part)....

Congratulations, you've made it halfway through the year!  This is a construct novel start, as well as then it's a cracking fourth dimension for getting refocused as well as reenergized for the coming academic term.  It was a rattling busy destination of the term for all of us as well as I can't await to larn refocused as well as organized myself! Tues 2/3:  Final Exams Back.  Define Genetic Terms (listed downward below) inwards your notebook.  As a class, become over damage as well as create an representative of a Monohybrid as well as Dihybrid Cross.  Do multiplication as well as improver rules if time. Start Reading Chapter 14. Thurs 2/5:  Applying multiplication as well as improver rules to genetics problems.  More genetics concepts, similar codominance, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles, epistasis, etc.  Examples alongside blood types.  Work on problems: 1-20 at the destination of Chapter xiv inwards onetime books (1-19 in...

Mon 2/23:   Check off "Ghost inward your Genes" video notes if non already.  Notes on Crossing Over, Linked Genes, Gene Mapping.  Work on Genetics Problems 1-14 at the terminate of Chapter xv (to endure checked off yesteryear the terminate of the stream on Th 2/26). Tues 2/24:  Science OAKS testing.  When finished, supply to course of teaching together with move on Genetics Problems. Thurs 2/26:  Explain Gene Mapping.  Finish Genetics Problems 1-14 together with banking firm gibe off.  Start reviewing for Genetics Test for side yesteryear side Th 3/5. Mon 3/2:  Review for Genetics Test.  SPARK Lecture this afternoon inward 169! Tues 3/3:  Last infinitesimal review for Genetics Test.  Go over the procedure of deoxyribonucleic acid Replication together with imitate the procedure at your table.  Start Reading Chapter 16. Thurs 3/5:  Take Genetics Test.  Review Replication.

Mon 3/9:  Notes on deoxyribonucleic acid construction too replication basics.  Work on Chapter xvi Worksheet, due tomorrow! Tues 3/10:  Practice Replication.  Get your worksheet initialed too and then plough it in.  Start transcription.  Replication too Transcription simulations on the computers. Thurs 3/12:  More on transcription too root translation.  Genetic Code worksheet.  Start reading Chapter 17.  You volition accept a brusk exam on replication, transcription too translation side past times side Th 3/19 earlier Spring Break!  I volition plough over yous a review today.

Mon 3/16:  Notes on Translation!  Turn inward Code Worksheet if non already.   Tues 3/17:  Review translation.  Computer simulations on translation (see website).  Jeopardy Review!! Thur 3/19:  Add upward EW.  Turn inward 16+17 Review (hand-written summary described on review sheet).  Take 16+17 Test.  Pick upward Enzyme Worksheet too happen it.  It volition hold out due Tues 3/31.   Have a Great Spring Break!!

Now is the end force earlier the goal of the year!  Hopefully yous got unopen to remainder as well as ease inward as well as are induce to convey a dandy goal to the year! Mon 3/30:  A few notes on enzymes.  Finish Enzyme Worksheet for tomorrow. Tues 3/31:  Turn inward Enzyme Worksheet.  A few to a greater extent than notes on enzymes.  Do enzyme estimator simulation (explore enzyme action).  Then, inward groups of ii or 3, create the lactase estimator simulation.  Answer all the questions on a course of education canvass of paper, including copying the information table, making ii consummate graphs.  Substitute doubt (high-low divided past times 2) for touchstone divergence as well as skip SEM.  Your graph should include doubt bars.  There volition survive twenty minutes inward flat on Th to complete this. Thurs 4/2:  Finish Lactase Computer Simulation as well as plough inward (you solely quest one re-create per group). ...

SPARK Lecture  on Fisheries on Monday!! Mon 4/6:  Do ii other protocols for Enzyme Lab too fill upward out province hand-out notes.  Please elevate one's hear what protocol yous desire to produce too what yous volition modify too plough inward to me earlier yous become today. Tues 4/7:  Do trials for the lab to determine which quantities yous volition use.  Lab pre-write too root actual trials if yous accept time. Thurs 4/9:  Complete trials for the lab too root processing data.  Completed Write-up is due side past times side Th 4/16.  Review for brusk Enzyme, Protein, too deoxyribonucleic acid Test side past times side Tuesday 4/14.  All terminate of the quarter operate due earlier the terminate of the schoolhouse day. Friday 4/10:  No School!  Teacher Work Day.

You tin job the Enzyme Notes on this site to deal access this information. Define enzyme too active site Explain enzyme-substrate specificity (lock too key) Explain the effects of temperature, pH, too substrate concentration on the enzyme activity (and endure able to put and/or sketch the graphs) Define enzyme denaturation too depict ways inwards which it occurs State that metabolic pathways consist of chains too cycles of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. Describe the induced-fit model for enzymes (extension of lock too telephone substitution model) Explain that enzymes lower the activation liberate energy of the chemic reactions that they catalyze (and endure able to put this consequence on a graph) Explain the departure betwixt competitive too non-competitive inhibition, amongst reference to ane illustration of each. Explain the command of metabolic pathways yesteryear end-product inhibition, including the operate of allosteric sites.

Go to On-Line Virtual Stem Cell Laboratory as well as Do/Answer the Following on Separate canvas of paper.  You may plough inward 1 canvas for 2 people. 1)  Define stalk cell 2)  What are embryonic stalk cells? 3)  Try the coaxing agents as well as come across what they do.  Trace at to the lowest degree iv pathways to their endpoints.  Describe iv of these pathways. 4)  Describe what these iv endpoints are used for (read the text on the website).  For example, motor neuron cells tin live on used to process ALS! Go to Learn Genetics Link as well as become to Go Go Stem Cell! 1)  What is a niche? 2)  Go to three of the possible stalk jail cellphone niches as well as become through the simulation. Describe what happens to the jail cellphone equally it is converted from a stalk jail cellphone to its detail differentiated cell.

What produce you lot need? 1)  Focused Question 2)  Background information 3)  Variables 4)  Materials 5)  Procedure 6)  Data Table 7)  Calculations 8)  Graph (s) 9)  Conclusion 10)  Evaluation Click here for help on the Data Parts, Conclusion, as well as Evaluation.

Welcome to the fourth Quarter!! Mon 4/13:  Go over enzyme lab write-up as well as concepts on Enzyme Quiz.  Work time. Tues 4/14:  Take Enzyme Quiz.  Time to either run on writing upwards the Enzyme Lab (including LoggerPro hel0) or to produce the two Stem Cell On-line Interactives.  Instructions below. Thurs 4/16:  Turn inwards Enzyme Lab (hard-copy as well as through turnitin.com).  Notes on Stem Cells as well as Cloning (see documents department if you lot postulate them).  More fourth dimension to run on Stem Cell interactives.  Turn those inwards today or Monday.

Mon 4/20:  Turn inwards Stem Cell Interactives if non already.  Using novel IB books inwards the classroom, accept notes on Gel Electrophoresis, PCR, as well as deoxyribonucleic acid profiling.  Do PCR as well as Gel Electrophoresis simulations on the computers. SPARK lecture today!! Tues 4/21:  Watch videos on application of stalk cells:  making artificial organs as well as pare jail cellular telephone spray guns.  Now, using the novel IB books, accept notes on factor transfers to bacteria as well as risks as well as benefits of Genetically Modified crops.  Do data-analysis questions on Analyzing risks to Monarch butterflies of Bt corn (p. 195) on split newspaper to hold upwards turned in. If time, maintain to bacterial transformation simulation on-line. Thurs 4/23:  Review gel electrophoresis, PCR, as well as bacterial transformation.  Research issues of genetic change as well as brand a poster.

Syllabus Statements for Biotech: Gel electrophoresis is used to kind proteins or fragments of deoxyribonucleic acid according to size PCR tin live on used to amplify modest total of DNA DNA profiling involves comparing of DNA Genetic alteration is carried out lby cistron transfer betwixt species Clones are groups of genetically identical organisms, derived from a unmarried master copy rear cell Many constitute species together with to a greater extent than or less creature species convey natural methods of cloning Animals tin live on cloned at the embryo phase yesteryear breaking upward the embryo into to a greater extent than than 1 grouping of cells Methods convey been developed for cloning adult animals using differentiated cells Applications together with skills: Be able to push clitoris the run of deoxyribonucleic acid profiling inwards paternity together with forensic investigations Be able to push clitoris the procedure of cistron transfer to bacteria using pla...

Mon 4/27:  Restriction Enzyme Worksheet.  Work on Bioethics Posters. Tues 4/28:  1st catamenia doesn't get got shape due to ACT.  3rd in addition to fourth periods volition complete posters, plough in, in addition to ready Seed Germination. Thurs 4/30:  Questions earlier Biotech Quiz?  Take Quiz.  1st catamenia does ready for Seed Germination in addition to and then starting fourth dimension notes on plants.  3rd in addition to fourth periods takes quiz in addition to and then does Leaf Structure coloring in addition to worksheet.

SPARK Lecture on Mon 5/4!!  Tim Mattson amazing images of the universe! Mon 5/4:  Germinate unopen to seeds!  Work on Leaf Worksheet, due tomorrow.   Tues 5/5:  Check your seeds!  Talk virtually Seed Germination Inquiry  Finish Leaf Worksheet as well as larn checked off.  Read virtually transpiration inward Chapter ix of the novel books.  Set upwards leaves for transpiration inquiry. Thurs 5/7:  Check your seeds again.  Finish transpiration lab activities.  Seed germination as well as establish shipping notes. We volition last going on a Field Trip to the Hoyt Arboretum on Tuesday, May 19th!

Mon 5/11:  Hand out Field Trip Form for Hoyt Arboretum trip side yesteryear side Tuesday, May 19th (you won't fille whatsoever other classes).  Please instruct it signed yesteryear a parent/guardian ASAP.  Brief notes on Plant Origins.  Finish Transpiration Lab as well as plough in. Tues 5/12:  Finish notes on constitute origins as well as notes on flowers.  Do Plant as well as Flower Worksheet.  Make solutions for your seed germination lab if yous want. Thurs 5/14:  Amazing Video on Plants.  Fill out Video Notes Hand-Out every mo yous go.  Do Computer Research on the Hoyt Arboretum.  Finish Plant as well as Flower Worksheet as well as plough in. Mon 5/18:  SPARK Lecture today on Soil Conservation!  Prep for Hoyt Arboretum Field Trip. Tues 5/19:  Hoyt Arboretum Field Trip!  Arrive to flat on fourth dimension amongst your Tri-Met pass, sturdy shoes, as well as appropriate clothing.  You volition accept ...

The official due appointment is Thursday, May 28th, although y'all tin sack plow inwards early on for or together with then extra credit points. 1)  Focused Question 2)  Background information 3)  Variables, explained! 4)  Materials 5)  Procedure, hold out specific!! 6)  Data Table w/ doubtfulness together with observations 7)  Calculations, including t-tests. If y'all convey four consummate sets of data, how many t-tests is that?  6! 8)  Conclusion 9)  Evaluation, tin sack create every mo chart

Mon 5/25:  Memorial Day.  No School! Tues 5/26:  Plant Growth!  Hand-out Plant Review for exam adjacent Tues 6/2. Thurs 5/28:  Turn inwards Seed Germination Lab if non already!  Phototropism together with Photoperiodism.  Review Plants.  Hand-out review for Semester Final! Mon 6/1:  Full eight Schedule.  Questions on Plant Test?  Review for Final Exam.  Get whatsoever like shooting fish in a barrel operate or extra credit turned inwards this week.  Final SPARK lecture of the schoolhouse yr is today at 3:30! Tues 6/2:  Plant Test. Review for Final Exam. Thurs 6/4:  Review for Final Exam. Mon 6/8:  Review for Final Exam. Tues 6/9:  Part I of Final Exam. Thurs 6/11:  Part II of Final Exam. Enjoy your summer!  You accept earned it!

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Hello students!  I am in addition to therefore excited to come across you lot dorsum inward the classroom this calendar week in addition to next!  As I checked dorsum into this blog, I realized that the final affair I wrote almost was the surgical viewing.  Those of you lot who were signed upwards know that it was cancelled.  Hopefully it volition endure rescheduled for this fall.  This yr nosotros volition endure studying the next topics, inward pretty merely about this order: First Semester Ecology Biodiversity Evolution Digestion in addition to Absorption Circulation Gas Exchange Immunology Second Semester Muscles in addition to Movement The Kidney Nerves, Hormones, in addition to Homeostasis Sexual Reproduction Neurobiology in addition to Behavior In addition, nosotros volition endure doing several inquiry labs this autumn that volition laid you lot for the larger Internal Assessment that you lot volition perform inward the...

Fri 8/28:  Hand out Topic Sequence for this yr together with a mass assignment for 4.1 (the outset department of ecology).  Do the hap your ain canvas of newspaper to last turned inwards side past times side Tuesday.  Hand out Safety together with Academic Honesty contracts to last signed together with turned inwards past times side past times side Th 9/4. Tues 9/1:  Go over what nosotros volition last roofing this yr together with review cast expectations.  Go over ecology definitions together with how to calculate the chi-squared.  Finish 4.1 worksheet together with plow in.  Watch Jane Poynter video on Biosphere 2.  If time, produce trials on the Sustainability Game. Thurs 9/3:  Turn inwards signed contracts if non already.  In your notes, tape results for 4-5 trials of the Sustainability Game.  Do data-based questions on pages 214, 216, together with 219 of IB text inwards your notes.  To last checked off on Tuesday 9/8...

Mon 9/14:  Make a shape mesocosm in addition to accept preliminary data.  Watch a video on  Bog Bodies.  Complete Carbon Cycle posters in addition to display inwards the room.  Work fourth dimension on 4.3 in addition to 4.4 questions (due Wed, merely plough inwards today if finished).  PhET Greenhouse Effect simulation. Wed 9/16:  More live on 4.3 in addition to 4.4 questions in addition to larn them checked off.  What Katharine Hayhoe video on Climate Change.  Climate Change ethical questions.  Jeopardy Review for Ecology Test on Friday . Mesocosm observations. Fri 9/18:  Jeopardy Review (Ecology Test postponed until side past times side Tuesday 9/22) in addition to larn over Data-Based Questions. Fish dichotomous key.  Mesocosm observations.

Tues 9/22:  Questions?  Take Ecology Test.  Do Fish Dichotomous Key inwards pairs. Observe mesocosms. Thurs 9/24:  Finish Fish Dichotomous Key.  Make your ain dichotomous cardinal separating at to the lowest degree x items of your selection for Midweek 9/30.  Classification Hierarchy.  Observe mesocosms. Mon 9/28:   Main categories of animals in addition to plants. Finish mesocosm observations.  Summarize for Fri 10/2.   Wed 9/30:  Exchange dichotomous keys in addition to produce them.  Animal Phyla Classification Lab.  Introduce cladograms. Fri 10/2:  Notes on cladistics in addition to cladograms.  Hand out Animal Poster Project.  Work fourth dimension to complete creature classification lab in addition to outset creature poster project.  Mesocosm write-up due past times 11:59 this evening through turnitin.com

To hold out done yesteryear yourself or amongst 1 other person Write your ain dichotomous cardinal to split upward at to the lowest degree x items Provide pictures (either downloaded too printed or drawn) for the user The cardinal should hold out based on visible traits The cardinal should brand sense Be creative, simply become inward logical

One of the ix practicals required yesteryear IB inwards the novel syllabus is observations of a mesocosm.  For this assignment, I would similar you lot to write a minimum of ii corporation paragraphs. 1)  Summarize your observations, using dates, which mesocosm you lot are referring to, together with describing plants, animals, together with abiotic conditions. 2)  Suggest reasons for the changes you lot observed inwards damage of cycles occurring inside the mesocosms.  You may create roughly minimal inquiry equally long equally you lot mention your source(s).  Do you lot mean value the mesocosm has reached a stable state?  Why or why not? You'll ask to add together this cast 1 time to a greater extent than for turnitin.com, equally final year's cast has expired. New cast ID:  10803960 Password:  mesocosm

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Tues 10/6:  How to construct a cladogram video.  Build a cladogram action using morphological characteristics.  Go over Biodiversity topics for exam side past times side Th 10/15.  Work on Animal Poster Project due side past times side Tues 10/13.  Thurs 10/8:  How to construct a cladogram using Uniprot in addition to amino acid sequences.  Finish poster project. Tues 10/13:  Walk-around evaluation of brute posters.  Questions on Biodiversity topics?  Evidence for Evolution. Thurs 10/15:  Biodiversity test.  Natural Selection.

The exam volition consist of: 1)  6-8 Multiple Choice Questions 2)  I volition laissez passer on yous 8-10 organisms to form in addition to yous tin form them using a cladogram or a dichotomous key 3)  1 data-based inquiry (including 3-4 questions) 4) 3-5 brusk answer questions.  Could include comparisons of organisms inward dissimilar phyla or chordate classes, a inquiry on how to brand cladograms using amino acid sequences, inquiry on the binomial system, the iii domains, etc. 5)  List ii distinct species from Kingdom to Species (must hold out at to the lowest degree inward dissimilar classes) 6)  You mightiness bring to translate a cladogram that has numbers on it, using the numbers to decide how far apart the species are evolutionarily.

Mon 10/19:  Notes on Evidence for Evolution in addition to Natural Selection.  Data-based questions on pp. 244, 249, 253, in addition to 257.  Beak of the Finch Quiz on Chapters 1-3 on Monday 10/26!  Please select your book! No School quarta-feira 10/21-Fri 10/23 for Parent-Student-Teacher Conferences. Mon 10/26:  Quiz on Chapters 1-3 of Beak of the Finch .  Finish data-based questions.  Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Simulation. Wed 10/28:  Independent Activity Packet piece nosotros rotate each grouping t Wed 10/28:  Catch upwards twenty-four hr menstruum to complete data-based questions in addition to the Hardy-Weinberg Packet.  2nd Beak of the Finch  quiz (Chapters 4-6) on Monday 11/2. Fri 10/30:  No School.  Grading Day. Mon 11/2:  Beak quiz on Chapters 4-6.  Note-taking on Speciation in addition to Barriers to Reproduction.  Introduce Populations Lab. Wed 11/4:  Evolution of Life on Earth. ...

Define cistron pool Define development inward price of allele frequencies Describe three patterns of natural alternative (directional, stabilizing, disruptive) Look at data-based questions on 456 together with 457 together with briefly depict what each report is showing Do data-based questions on p. 458 Describe dissimilar categories of reproductive isolation: geographic (allopatric), behavioral, temporal (sympatric).  Give examples of each. Do Bird vocal questions on p. 459. Distinguish betwixt gradualism together with punctuated equilibrium inward evolution.  Why did scientists hold off towards a “punctuated” model? Describe polyploidy together with how it contributes to evolution.

Tues 11/17:  Jeopardy Review for Evolution Test.  Take information for Populations Lab. Thurs 11/19:  Take Evolution Test.  Pick upward Digestion Coloring sail together with review the digestive organization for adjacent Monday. Mon 11/23:  Overview of the digestive system.  Longitudinal department of the pocket-size intestine.  Digestive enzymes.  Complete coloring the digestive system.  Read 6.1 from IB Bio text (see link on website).  Bring signed Cadaver Field trip shape for students going on the am plain trip on Tuesday, Dec 1st.  Afternoon trip is on Wed, Dec 9. Wed 11/25:  Populations Lab due today through turnitin.com.  Go over construction of villi together with absorption inwards the digestive system.  Quiz on the digestive organization adjacent Thursday, Dec 3rd. Thursday/Friday:  No School for Thanksgiving Holiday. Tues 12/1:  Cadaver Field Trip for fifth menses (and other students electin...

Mon 12/7:  Pig Heart Dissection!  With 1 or two other people, dissect the hog heart.  Draw external heart, internal heart, label in addition to mensurate equally many parts equally you lot can, in addition to write observations.  Pluck demonstration of hog lung action.  Finish working on Circulation Worksheet, due Wednesday.  Field Trip aeroplane due for anyone planning on going on the PM Cadavaer Field Trip on Wednesday. Wed 12/9:  AM:  Notes on Blood Vessels in addition to Heart Structure.  Finish working on Circulation Worksheet in addition to instruct it checked off.  Turn inwards Dissection observations/drawings/and measurements if non already.  PM:  Cadaver Field Trip!  Please locomote into inwards the room yesteryear 11:40 in addition to thence that nosotros tin instruct out inwards practiced time.  Bring your Tri-Met pass, wearable comfortable clothes, in addition to brand certain that you lot are well-rest...

What's on it? Label parts on a midpoint diagram (similar to the i on your circulation worksheet) Outline the path of the blood through the midpoint chambers, vessels, as well as valves Distinguish betwixt arteries, veins, as well as capillaries inward damage of their properties, locations, etc. Describe how valves (heart as well as vein) move to snuff it along blood going i trend as well as non the other Describe the command of the midpoint shell (via sinoatrial node, two nerves from medulla of brain, as well as a hormone.  Also know near the conducting fibers as well as what it agency to hold upwardly myogenic muscle)

You May Use My Notes, Your At-Home Text, as well as The Scanned 6.4 Section on this Website Be able to push clit the role of ventilation Describe construction as well as business office for alveoli, including type I as well as type II pneumocytes (cells inwards the alveoli) Identify anatomy of the respiratory system, including trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, diaphragm, as well as intercostal muscles Be able to push clit “negative pressure” breathing as well as the musculus contractions that forcefulness air inwards as well as out of the lungs (inspiration as well as expiration) Understand the concept of antagonistic musculus activeness as well as the antagonist pairs at live on inwards breathing Be able to hash out causes as well as consequences of lung cancer as well as emphysema Suggest methods for monitoring of ventilation inwards humans at residue as well as afterward mild as well as vigorous do (ventilation charge per unit of measurement as well as tidal volu...