Mon, June 1

Review Day

Group work during class on Exam Part I

Second part of exam handed out. Please work on the exam at least forty five minutes every night.

Tues, June 2

Exams

HW: Work on the exam at night for 45 minutes at night.

Wed, June 3

Exams

HW: Work on the exam for 45 minutes

Please review and bring your questions to your group exam tomorrow.

Thurs, June 4

Science Exam

You will take your exam in assigned groups in the science wing.

45 minutes for group work

Fill in scantron

30 individual work

6/7

Graduation MC

10

8:30- 9:30 Faculty Office Hours- you can check your exam

11

End of Year Faculty meetings

12

End of Year Faculty  Meetings

May 1

Transformation Results reviewed,

Be sure that you lab have the results  in your notebook

4 Plasmid Map

Finish the plasmid map

5  Silly Lab Tech assigned

Complete plasmid maps tonight bring to class tomorrow

Review electrophoresis concepts

6

Plasmid maps due for Silly Lab

7

Honors Bio/Chem Test -room to be determined/ period 7

Marine Biologist Dr. Krediet  is giving a talk!

1/2 room 110 8:15-8:59

3/4 marine biology lecture in McCrae 10:19-11:03

8

SIlly lab Tech due

5/6 Room 110 Marine Scientist Talk

12:15- 12:55

9/10

Concert DuBourg

Mother's Day

Test Chapter 10& 11 DNA Structure,

11 Test Chapter 10& 11 DNA Structure,

12

Harvest of Fear finishing....

LOOK for foods to bring tonight! See above for good choices.

13

FOOD for DNA Extraction!!!!!

14

DNA Extraction

Setting up PCR reactions

Complete the questions in the handout.

15

Setting up PCR reaction

Take home Molecular Biology essay questions

Faculty induction to the Magestri Reception

16/17

Alumni Reunion Weekend

18

Gel Electrophoresis of PCR products

Analysis of gel results

19

20

Cell Division and Mitosis

Review phase of Cell cycle in your notebook

21

Cell Division and Mitosis Continued

HW- Review the image of cellular division of mitosis  and identify as many phases as you can for homework

Analyse your gels- see links upper left

22

Microscope work on mitosis and gel analysis

23/24

Work on review of semester material....work on outlines of material within each unit.

25

Memorial Day

School Closed

27

Senior Day and Yearbook Dedication Day

28

Upper School Athletics

29

 Short Hills BBQ

30

Last Day of Classes

Review Day

30

Photosynthesis Begins

Review notes carefuly

Read 108- 112

Review the structure of the cholorplast- where does the light reaction occur?

Dark reaction?

31

Special Schedule

Please work on labeling the thylakoid membrane diagram. Please take the time to annotate the diagram extensively and carefully!

Please read  7.8, 7.9  carefully.

View Photosynthesis: the movie!!! Watch it and supplement  your notes.

1

Article on Photosynthesis

2

Window Graffiti!

3

Wrapping up photosynthesis

Check point!

Grades close today.

Comments to be written over the weekend!

4/5

Comments writing

6

Quiz  on Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration- you may use your windows to help you!

7

Molecular Biology! New Section!

Review cytochrome C on PDB website- what does it do?

Read the following section in your text book and label the diagram on hw. Include 5' ends 3' ends, identify a nucleotide, base pair, purine, pryimidine, backbone, show anti parallel. Link on the left has hw page.

Read 10.2, 10.3

Check out DNAi website for interviews with james watson about Rosalind Franklin

8

Holocaust Assembly

Special Schedule

Yeast Lab

Which sugar does a yeast prefer? Sucrose? Maltose? Glucose? What does a yeast use sugar for?

Section 3/4 and 5/6 read 10.4 and 10.5

Review replication

What is a template strand? What is semiconservative?  What enzymes are associated with DNA replication? Continous and discontinous synthesis?

Section 1/2 graph your results and be ready to discuss

9 Yeast Lab

Honors Projects due!

10 Good Friday

No Classes

13

Ya better know 5' and 3' end by today!!!

DNA Replication

Read 10.4, 10. 5

DNA strands only grow in the direction of 5' to 3' or 3' to 5'?

Form III review meeting at 3 pm.

14

One gene--> one polypeptide theory.

How does the construction of hemoglobin confirm this idea?

transcription

translation

Read 10.6 and 10.7, 10.8 

Review links.

Dr. Stock visiting CP for SMART Team visit.

15

Special Schedule for  Ruby Bridges visit

Period 3 missing class!

Prokarotic Gene Hunting

Eukaryotic Gene Expression

Introns and Exons

Can you compare a prokaryotic mRNA transcript to eukaryotic transcript? What are the differences?

Quiz on monday DNA Structure and basic gene expression

20

SMART Team Field Trip to New Orleans

www.pingrysmartteam.com

Substitute Instructions

Handout quiz

Collect!

Grade!

21

SMART Team Field Trip

to New Orleans

Movie: The Secret of Photo 51

Earth Day!

27

Swine Flu!!!

Section 1/2- bring Eurkaryotic Gene hw to class tomorrow

Section 3/4- finished gene hunting ex. woth 2 points bing gene hunting page with you tomorrow and quiz to go over tomorrow

Section 5/6- we finished gene hunting and you should bring hw from gene hunting and  quiz tomorrow

28

29

Transformation Lab!

We will check the results on Friday!

Make sure that you have reviewed your predictions for the results tomorrow.

30

Section  1/2 will review results.

Cloisters Trip form III.

MAY 1st

2 Osmosis & Diffusion

Review Data of IKI

Be sure that you understand the concepts and the movement of the materials

5 Potato Lab

Be sure that you understand the graph!

Be sure that you have read 5.12- 5.19

ESSAYS ARE UP!!!

6 O'Mara at DN A Learning Center in Harlem

Quiz on Osmosis and Diffusion 

You are allowed to use your notes! Notes and diagrams only!!!!

7?8

Homework over the weekend!

 You should read Chapter 6 completely and create a one page chart describing cellular respiration. Please click here for a guide.

Please fill as much as you can about each process BEFORE coming to class on Monday- 5 points!!!

You should have details about what the purpose of each section, what comes into each section, what feeds into the the next set. What is the final out come of ETC?

Where is carbon dioxide produced?

Where is the oxygen consumed?

REVIEW ESSAYS!

10 Energetics

More on Enegetics

We looked at the processes up close and in more detail

Be sure you can identify EXACTLY where water is used in the electron transport chain!

we reviewed a ppt slide presentation in class today that you should transfer to you notes tonight.

Please review ALL of the animations linked above tonight!!!!

11 Energetics

REVIEW LINKS!

Finish the worksheet for hw on cell respiration.

Online test up tonight LATE!!!!

14/15              SPRING BREAK!!!!

Monday 2

Please work on the honors projects

Tuesday 3

Super Size Me!

Wed 4

Snow Day

Thursday 5

Starting Cell Structure and Function

Surface Area to volume ratio- why are all cells so smal?

prokaryotic cell structure- see links on the side and review ppt.

Read 4.1, 4.2

Friday 6

Cell Structure Con't

Period 7, room 128- Dr. baker is vistiing a class and you are welcome to attend! Possible free point!!!!

Monday 9

O'Mara out

BRING YOUR BIO TEXT BOOKS TO CLASS!

Tuesday 10

Section 1/2 - used microscpoes to look at cyanobacteria. Practiced mechanics of drawing

section 3/4- reviewed test and how the grading works, went over the packet- will grade and collect cell drawings with labels

section 5/6- above

Wednesday 11

More microscope- cheek cell

or slime depending on class

Thursday 12

Intergenerational Prom!!! Please sign up and come! Lots of fun!!

Friday 13

Honors Projects Due

Sat/Sunday 14/15

Valentine's Day

Monday 16

President's Break

Tuesday 17

President's Break

Wednesday 18

Endomembrane System Lecture

Middle School Swim Meet home 3:45 vs Newark Academy

Thursday 19

Endomembrane System on the board and application quiz

Take home homework from class on part of a cell

4.5- 4.13

Friday 20

Substitute for first period onlY!

read 4. 13- Mitochondria & Choloroplasts, Cytoskeleton

online quiz on  Part of cell Due tuesday. One submission only allowed. Link will live here.

Sat/ Sunday 21/22

Parts of cell online quiz

Monday 23

parts of a cell  online quiz

Energy and the Cell

Read 5.3- 5.5

Tuesday 24

Parts of a cell online quiz should be finished.

MS Meet at Ranney- I will be leaving early

Thursday 26

Winter Musical- Extra point available if you attend

Friday 27

Winter musical

Sat 28

Winter musical

Matinee

Thursday  1st

Sat & Sun

3 & 4

5 

Welcome Back!

Please find your textbook and put your chemistry material away until next January!

Section your notebook according to dividers- first one Biochemistry!

Keep all Biochem material in this section.

6

Biology is chemistry that occurs in water!

Review the properties of water and what about the water molecule imparts the abilities to water.

Introduction to Biochemistry

Read 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

Hydrocarbons, isomers, functional groups, polymer, monomer, dehydration synthesis, hydrolysis

Using molecular modeling kits in class.

7

Observation Polar versus Non Polar

8

Section 3/4 Observation

12

Honors Letter Out to Students

Due on Friday

Introduction to Macromolecules Modeling Project

Review links on the side and get to know peptidoglycan!

13

14

Section 1/2 Modeling Project

peptidoglycan questions due

Away swim meet at Pennington

15

Section 3/4

Section 5/6 Modeling Project

Peptidoglycan questions due!

HW: Review all the links on the left for review help.

16

GUEST SPEAKER:

John Greenleaf, PhD. on arsenic in drinking water.

2:30-3:30 Faculty Lounge

All are encouraged to attend, especially Honors Candidates.

Quiz on Macromolecules (so far)

19

Martin Luther King, jr Day

No Classes

20  PDB Project on Protein

Read 3.13 and 3.14  and digram on levels of proteins structure. Can you see the backbone interactions of secondary structure? What type of interactions make up tertiary structure? The diagram is very poor in tertirary structure- what could you add to improve the diagram?

21

Protein Structure Continues-

22

Swim Meet at Home MKA

23

Protein Page DUE.

26

quick review of the rules that govern the test this week.

HONORS CANDIDATES- you should have received an email from Mr. Hata today with the project. If you did not receive it please see me on Tuesday ASAP. Not receiving means that I don't have your honors letter.

27

Section 1/2- working on essays in class

Section 3/4 & 5/6- Nucleotides

Please read 10.2 page 184- 185 and 3.16 page 47

Test link is now live!!! Many requests were made to have the test made available a bit earlier than was scheduled. The deadline for two submissions is still Friday. Remember I will average your grade if you choose to submit twice. Also, remember to print out the test to work on it.

28

Essay Test see link above for essays. Remember I will choose two of the possible essays.

Online MC test link see above- is now live

IF THIS IS A SNOW DAY....we slide everything in class one day. The test will be Thursday.

Work on MC test see link above

29

Supersize Me!

Work on MC Test - see link above

30

Supersize Me!

Work on MC Test- see link above

Both submissions are due tonight!!!