Announcements:

Enjoy your summer!

Honors Chem Placement

will be announced after the exam towards the middle of June.

SMART Team selection will be announced this summer.

2

Review Day

Part I of the final given in class

Taken with partners

Allowed to bring in your own review outlines

3

Final Exams

Biology Exam

Exam grades will be posted to thinkwave asap.

Please be advised that I will not be available for office hours next week to review the exam with you individually. Please make an appointment for the third week in june if you would like to see the exam.

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Final Exams

Check thinkwave for your grades.

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Final Exams

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Make up Exams

7/8

Leaving for Belize on Sunday June 8 thru 14

Graduation sunday June 8

28 test up

In class essays taken for genetics- see link above

29

TEst still up..staying up till tomorrow as per your request.

Planaria maintenance day...please work on your introduction for the planaria paper

30

As per your request- test stays up till tonight.

Lab on PV92

DNA Isolation

Bring lab notebook every day

1 Lab

PCR reactions

Review links under APPLIED MOLECULAR BIOLOGY to the left

2 Lab

Gel Electrophoresis

Gel images will be emailed and posted as a link.

3/4

Review gel images over the weekend

5

PV92 discussion

Homework Questions on Lab click here

PV92ppt

6  Quiz on Lab open notes!

Data analysis for Planaria

Bring your own computer or use the cart

Review procedure

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Evolution

Introduction to evolution.

Clean out and organize notebooks.

Returned quizzes.

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Charles Darwin

Natural Selection

Artificial Selection

Differential Selection

Orange Biozone

Read 95, do 96, 73

ppt on Darwin

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Evidence for Evolution

Fossil Record

Biogeography

Comparitive Anatomy

Molecular Biology

ppt on Evidence for Evolution

Orange biozone75,76,

read 77,81,83,84,85

86

read 89

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Examples of Evolution and Natural Selection

MRSA, tuberculosis, Antibiotic Resistance

Pesticide resistance

Planaria conclusion rough draft due. Last check before handing in paper.

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Bean Lab

Population level evolution

population, gene pool, and microevolution

Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium

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Lab in 1/2- please review data and think about graphing your data. We will discuss the data in class tomorrow.  Make sure you review the links above.

3/4, 5/6- Reviewed lab data and graphing question. Due monday

Bring Orange Biozone review links above.

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Section 1/2- review lab data

Section3/4 & 5/6

Hardy Weinberg

Bring ORANGE BIOZONE

Complete 111-112 in  biozone

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quiz on Evolution Vocabulary and the defination of evolution

Section 1/2: data discussion, and Hardy Weinberg

Section 3/4 other factors contributing to evolution (read 13.9)

Orange BZ- 116, 117, 118

Belize Parent/Student meeting 3:15 room 110

17/18

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HW Equilibrium in real world

Other factors that cause microevolution: G. Drift, Gene flow, founder, and bottleneck

What is variation, types, and causes

13.9, 13.10, 13.11, 13.12, 13.14

Review BZ from last week carefully.

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Natural Seletion Curves

13.16

BZ- Read 107, complete # 3 and 4 on 108, review 109 carefully- you do not have to complete the questions though you should know how to complete the questions.

Complete 98, 99, 100 #1, 2A,3,5

What is a species? What keeps species separate?

What causes speciation?

BZ-

Planaria paper due section 1/2

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Section 1/2 HW  lab

3/4 5/6 What is a species? How are species kept separate?

Read 14.1- 14.8

BZ- 119,120,121,122,123

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Quiz

Chapter 13 qand early 14- species and species barrier

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Special Schedule

Planaria paper due 3/4 , 5/6

Pace of Evolution

Test online Chapter 13, 14, some of 15

26 No School

Memorial Day

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Take home test on Evolution given on

Review Sheet I and II in class

Work on out YOUR OWN Outlines. See Exam guidelines

Senior Day and Yearbook

28

Take home test DUE. No exceptions

Review Sheet III and IV

Work on YOUR OWN outlines

See exams guidelines

Dissection

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Review Sheets

Dissection

Work on your OWN outlines

Community Service Hours are due!

30

Review day

Bring Questions.

Review day is student driven- NOT teacher driven. You will have had time to construct outlines, practice mc, and complete review sheets. You will have had time to discern what topics are confusing and you should bring those questions to class today.

Plant labs are due.

Semester Ends

Work on Outlines!

Please review guidelines. The outlines should be your own work. NOT some one elses. Your own had writing is preferable. I will check and review the outlines.

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Essay Test

Online test continues

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Bring copy of test to class

Planaria Project Begins- try to bring spring water to school

5

Last day to submit test

6

Honors Projects Due

Return the essays

Hand walking Video

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Spring Break

begins after school

Change Planaria water with water from side bench.

Continue with Hand Walking Video

8/9

Spring Break

25

Genetics

Check plananaria- should you fee them? What should you feed them? record numbers

C&C- 154-159

BZ 206, 207, 209,210

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Mendelian Genetics

Review and apply vocabulary given in class.

Review links above

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Baby Picture Assigned

Genetics Questionaire given out- due tomorrow

Special Morning Meeting- All form III students to Faculty Lounge for History of Pingry

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Going to Library

Genetic Disorders given out.

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DNA Replication

Read 10.4

5

I am absent.

Read 10.5

Bring BIozone to class

6

Feedback quiz on Replication

Biozone to class

DNA replication

Review resource links above.

7

Finishing Plant Lab Data

Discussion of Formal Lab Write-up

8

Working on plant lab with excel. Bring lap tops and lab notebooks.

9/10

Work on Plant labs

11.

Brief discussion of plant labs- bring questions and comments everyday. Please work on at least one section every few days.

Introduction to Cell Cycle (Read: 8.1- 8.5)

HW FInd three chemotherapy drugs and the point in the cell cycle they work on.

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Mitosis Discussion (8.6)

BZ: 100, 102, 103

Lab: Microscope observing Mitosis in onion cells

Cartoon Assignment- using a typical white piece of paper, represent the cell cycle in a colorful, creative representation, include all phases of mitosis

Cell Cycle ppt.

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SNOW DAY!

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Onion Root Tip Slide- Practicing ID of phases

Mtosis Observation Lab

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Quiz! Open notes! 12 points

Cartoon due 10 points

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Presidents' Weekend

No School

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Presidents' Weekend

No School

20

C&C: Read 8.13, 8.14, 8.17

Biozone: 181, 182, 183, 184

Meiosis ppt

21

C&C- 8.15-8.16

Plant Lab 1 Due (section 3/4, 5/6)

Review links above!

Practice Meiosis with beads!

Meiosis II ppt

HONORS PROJECTS OUT. Please see my office immediately to get pick up project and one model kit per partnership.

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C&C 8.18-8.20

SNOW DAY!

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25

Section 1/2 plant reports due

Read 8.21, 8.22

BZ-201, 202,203

26

Meiosis III ppt

Review notes, finish BZ

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Bz pages- 169,170,171, 177-178

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Most of essays are up! Essays will be Monday in class. Check link above.

PLANARIA DAY! Starting planaria project

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In class open notes quiz on meiosis

Essay test on Monday

MC online Sunday -Wed nite. 2 submissions- count the average! Please print out the test and work carefully. See me if you have questions.

7

Classes resume

Pea Lab

Review Links and animations above.

8

Pea Planting

Review Quiz

Sec 1/2- Planted and part of quiz for homework.

Sec 3/4- quiz for HW

Sec 5/6- review

Quiz doc

9

Eukaryotic Gene Hunting Ex.

Another quiz! Based on additional terms from Gene Hunting Ex from class.

10

Alum College Luncheon

Sec 1/2- review and extra credit question

Sec 3/4-review and extra credit question

Section 5/6- fill in and gene hunting page 2&4

Gene hunting doc.

Fill in review

11

Honors Project Out

Covered Alternative Splicing, and gene mutations

Review readings above in Chapter 10.  Busy week next week! Prepare this weekend!

14

Starter Plate

15

Transformation Lab

Essay are up!

16

Review Lab results

Work on essays

17

Review lab results

Work on essays

Online test

18

End of Semester

Online Test

Section 1/2- essay?

19/20

Online test

21

No School

MLK Day

22

Second Semester starts

 In class essay

23

Paper Plasmid Activity

Read 12.2 in C&C

Section 1/2- Completing HW questions and BZ 243-244

Section 3/4- Schematic Restriction  Map of your plasmid, BZ 243-244

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Review links under Applied Molecular Biology Resources (top of page)

25 Career Day

Winter Sports Night

Gel Electrophoresis Discussion

BZ- 246

Test Corrections due! No exceptions please.

29

Honors Project Due

Restriction Digest of pGlo

30

Restriction Digest of pGlo- gel electrophoresis

31

Analysis/Annotation of Gels

Your gels are in your email!

1

Quiz-Plasmid digest Quiz

9 points totals-you can use your lab notebooks.

1 point extra credit for showing me your annotated gel in your lab notebook. (1/2- due monday)

Dec 1/2    

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5

Essays posted

Crickets and Peas Lab

6

Graphing Crickets and Peas Lab with Excel on laptops

7

No classes

Waksman Student Scholars Meeting Rutgers

8/9

Online test

(nite 1)

two submissions ONLY!

10

online test

(nite 2)

two submissions only!

IN CLASS ESSAY Test

11

Online test (nite 3)

two submissions

TOTAL!

12

Harvest of Fear

Honors Quiz goes up this evening!

13

SNOW DAY!

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Skipping end H of F

Introduction to DNA Structure

Read Chapter 10

BZ- 143-144 skip 4 & 5

see ppt above

see links above

Wiki Project 3 Assigned

15/16

Wiki Project 3

Chap. 10

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Chap 10

DNA isolation Lab

Wiki Project 3

Completed

Test Corrections accepted

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Chap 10

Section 3/4 picking up the drop.

Test corrections due

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Chap 10

BZ-146,153,155

Due tomorrow

Please finish the model.

Honors quiz back up tonight for one more try!

20

Chap 10

BZ-157,158

Section 5/6 picking up the drop.

Middle School Swim Meet

21

Last Day!

Section 1/2 Dirty DNA Lab (and food!)

Section 3/4 & 5/6 cancelled but made up this week during drops

Leave your Biozone!

24 Christmas Eve

25 Christmas

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