Notes

UNIT 1 (ch.1-5, 8 enzymes only)
What Type of Bond Am I?
Chapter 2-3 PP 
Chapter 4 PP
Grouping Activity (C, L, P, NA, H20) - ch.5 intro
Proteins Notes - ch.5
Enzyme (Micro) Notes 
Toothpickase Data

UNIT 2 (ch.6-7, 11-13)
Chapter 6 PP
Chapter 7 PP 
Lab 1 Powerpoint (on water potential)
Date Table 1.3 (dialysis bags)
Data Table 1.5 (potatoes)
Yeast cell signaling (schmoo formation)
Chapter 12 PP- Cell Cycle and Mitosis
Chapter 12 PP- Regulation
Cancerquest
Chapter 13 PP
Oogenesis vs. Spermatogenesis Diagram 

UNIT 3 (ch.9-10)
Respiration 
Chapter 9 PP - overview
Glycolysis PP (ch.9 - Cell Respiration) 
Kreb's Cycle PP (ch.9 - Cell Respiration)
ETC PP (ch.9 - Cell Respiration)
Comparing Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration (grouping activity)
Light Reactions PP (ch.10 - Photosynthesis)
Calvin Cycle PP (ch.10 - Photosynthesis)
C4 vs. CAM plants PP 3 (ch.10 - Photosynthesis) - tutorials cover this
Industrial and Systems Engineering site - guest speaker

UNIT 4 - MENDELIAN GENETICS & CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE (ch.14-15)
Chi Square Example - 9:3:3:1
Powerpoint 1 - Mendelian Genetics
Powerpoint 2 - Probability 
Powerpoint 3 - Beyond Mendel
Genetics Problems Examples
Ch.15 Notes 
Chromosome Disorder Notes 
Sex Chromosome Abnormalities

UNIT 5 - NONMENDELIAN GENETICS (ch.16-17)
Chapter 16 PP - history, structure
Chapter 16 PP - DNA replication
Chapter 16 Notes
Chapter 16 - Enzyme matching key
Chapter 17 Notes
Chapter 17 - Mutations
Lab 7 Class Data (for Chi Square Analysis)


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2nd Semester

UNIT 6 - CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION & DNA TECHNOLOGY (ch.18-20)
WE ARE SKIPPING CHAPTER 21
Chapter 18 - Viruses
Chapter 18 - Operon Notes
Chapter 18 - Bacteria Genetic Variation/Gene Transfer (3 ways)
Chapter 19 - Eukaryotic Gene Expression
Nutrition and the Epigenome

UNIT 7 - EVOLUTION (ch.22-26)
Evolution (ch.22-26) KAPLAN PACKET
Cliffs pages
5 Types of Selection
Chapter 23 (Microevolution and Hardy-Weinberg)
Speciation 
Graduated and Punctuated Equilibrium


UNIT 8 - PLANTS (ch.29-30, 35-36)
Pearson Packet
Chapter 29 Notes
Chapter 30 - Angiosperm Life Cycle
Chapter 35 - Plant Structure and Growth
Chapter 36 - Plant Transport
Phloem 


UNIT 9 - ANIMAL DIVERSITY (ch.32-34) - YOU WILL NOT BE TESTED ON THIS UNIT
Pearson Packet
Chapter 32 Notes
Animal Phyla Grouping


ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
Cliffs packet


UNIT 10 - BODY SYSTEMS (ch.40-50)
Cliff's packet
Macro Notes - used to go over digestion, excretion, respiration and circulation
Test Review 


UNIT 11 - ECOLOGY
Use 4th edition Cliff's packet

Article Summaries

2 article summaries will be collected at the end of each marking period (1st-3rd).  You have the opportunity to do a 3rd for 10 points extra credit. They should pertain to curriculum covered during those 10 weeks. You should include a summary, mention how it relates to something you learned in class and give a recommendation.

Useful websites:
ScienceNews
ScienceDaily
Science News - The New York Times
FirstScience
e! Science News
Discover 
Scientific American
Popular Science 
Science on msnbc
Yahoo science


By topic:
Start Codons in DNA and RNA may be more numerous than previously thought
Research Techniques Made Simple: PCR
Are Cloned Animals Born Old? 
Keeping CRISPR in Check 

Sexism in science: Did Watson and Crick really steal Rosalin Franklin's data?

Scientists Seek to Map All Human Cells in Vast Atlas
Scientists have just discovered a main difference between DNA and RNA 
Tracking a Parasite that Turns Bees into Zombies
Scientists have Improved the Vision of Blind Rats Using Gene Editing 
Scientific American's Top 10 Science Stories of 2015
8 Ways to Maximize Telomere Length and Increase Life Expectancy 
75 Percent of Animal Species Wiped Out in "Sixth Mass Extinction"
Vultures are Revolting. Here's Why We Need to Save Them.
Americans Love K-Cups, but Their Creator Regrets Inventing Them
Too Much Water Can Kill You 
Absurd Creature of the Week: The Badass Snail that has a Shell Made of Iron
Why you should never make your bed
Millions of Genetically Modified Mosquitos Set to be Released
Small Yet Important Genetic Differences Between Highly Intelligent People and General Population 
Bones in South African Cave Reveal New Human Relative
4 Ways Polar Bears Are Dealing With Climate Change
Do Bugs Sleep 
A Tale of Two All-McDonald's Diets
Plastic Waste in Great Lakes creates many woes
Big-Box Retailer Phases Out Bee-Killing Pesticides
Flirty Female Spiders Use Silk to Capture a Male's Interest
How to Boost Your Immune System
Marijuana-like Chemicals in the Brain Calm Neurons 
Sea World's New Ad is a Lie
Trail of Tools Reveals Modern Humans' Path out of Africa
Scientists Plan to Hunt for Alien Life on Europa
Filthy India Air Cutting 660 Million Lives Short by 3 Years
U.S. to allow genetically modified apples from Canada
Be my Biological Valentine
Flexible Moth Evolved Many Ways to Mate
DNA Reveals How Darwin's Finches Evolved
Green Sea Slug is Part Animal, Part Plant 
Discovery of Bacteria that Hasn't Evolved in 2 Billion Years
Millions of GMO Insects Could Be Released in Florida Keys
GMO Alert: Top 10 genetically modified foods to avoid eating
80% of Americans Support Mandatory Labels on Foods Containing DNA.DNA!
Cause of ALS is Found, Northwestern Team says
See the tiny tank where this killer whale had been confined for 45 years
Mass Death of Seabirds in Western U.S.
Designer Babies Debate
New Genetic Clues Found in Fragile X Syndrome
Flu Activity Worsens Nationwide, CDC Reports
Influenza Virus RNA Genome
CDC: Flu shot less effective this year
More Room for Chickens Likely Means Costlier Eggs 
Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm 
Audubon's Christmas Bird Count Turns 115: Why Does it Matter? 
Wolves and Bears Stage Comeback in Crowded, Urban Europe
How Scientists Found Deepest-Ever Fish 5 Miles Down 
This Drug Could be Promising in Extending Life 
Telomeres in Disease
Billionaire's New Science Institute Plans "Google Maps" View of Cells
Why Backyard Birds are Getting Drunk on Fermentation
OKAZAKI: DNA Synthesis is Discontinuous
One Man's Trash
How Better Glass Can Save Hundreds of Millions Birds a Year
Death by Dirty Water: Storm Runoff a Risk for Fish
In female flies, sex is more complex than yes or no
Urban Algae Farm Gobbles Up Highway Air Pollution 
Germany's First Waste-Free Supermarket
How Notorious HIV is Being Hijacked to Tackle Cancer
World's Longest Snake Has Virgin Birth 
Why Rats, Mosquitoes and Water Don't Spread Ebola
Nobel Prize Winners stop bleeding with pork, make sausage from poop
DNA Analysis Shows That Native American Genealogy is One of the Most Unique in the World
Running is the Killer App of the Human Body 
The dead trees and fallen leaves near Chernobyl aren't decaying 
We May Have Figured Out What's Killing the Bees
Study: Smelling farts may be good for your health 
19 Year Old Develops Machine to Clean up Oceans of Plastic 
Taiji Dolphin Slaughter: Culture or Cruelty? 
Cesarean Delivery May Cause Epigenetic Changes in Babies DNA
Five Simple Questions about Ebola Answered
Birds fall from sky in MI
Elephant poaching deaths reach tipping point in Africa 
Three Person Babies
Humans Blamed for Extinction of Mammoths 
Pink Dolphins Get Rescue Plan 
7 Surprising Reasons You're Dehydrated 
Drunken Trees: Dramatic Signs of Climate Change
Impulsivity Linked to Cocaine Addition
The Organisms That Make Us Who We Are
London Skeletons Reveal Secrets of the Black Death 
Why You Don't Smell Like a Dog
America Must Kill This Fish 
How a Boy's Pet Rodent Turned Deadly 
Ancient Baby DNA Suggest Tie to Native Americans
Copenhagen Zoo Kills 4 Lions After Controversial Giraffe Death
Danish Zoo Kills Giraffe to Prevent Inbreeding 
Female Lions Prefer Dark-Maned Males, Study Finds
'On' switches for cells 
Stem Cell 'Major Discovery' Claimed
Opinion: Record Cold Doesn't Disprove Global Warning
4 Stranded DNA
Plants do math to control overnight food supplies
Naked Mole Rats Have Cancer Proof Goo
Eight Year Old Who Doesn't Age 
How a Sea Squirt Could Help You Grow New Limbs 
Illegal Exotic Pet Trade - poor sloths :-(
Death by a Thousand Cuts': Coal Boom Could Destroy Great Barrier Reef
India Bans Captive Dolphin Shows
Honeybees are Still Dying 
Dogs and Humans Evolved Together, Study Suggests
New Carbon Dioxide Level Unseen in Human History
The Tragic Plight of Lions in Africa
Clues to Understanding How Stem Cells Produce Different Kinds of Cells
Criminal Minds are Different than Yours 
Boston Psychiatrist Wants Accused Bomber's Brain Studied
CTE Detected in Living Ex-NFL Players
Toddler Born Without a Windpipe gets Artifical Trachea
Florida Battles Giant African Land Snail Invasion 
Scientists Decode DNA of "Living Fossil" Fish 
Big Brain Projects
Bidder Pays 6 Million for Crick DNA letter
Inspired by deep sea sponges: Creating Flexible Materials 
Why Dolphins Wear Sponges 
Bat Eating Spiders
Can the Prairie Dog be Saved? 
Water Trapped for 1.5 Billion Years Could Hold Ancient Life
It's the Right time for Congress to Recognize Darwin 
What is a Hox Gene? 
Scientists Develop Hypo-Allergenic Apples
Hox Genes in Human Lung
Even Ancient Mummies had Clogged Arteries
Allergic Teen Dies After Eating Cookie 
7 Steps to Cut Cancer Risk
5-Organ Transplant Patient Gives Birth
Aspirin Linked to lower risk of skin cancer 
The Case for and Against the Soda Ban 
Bee Venom Can Kill the HIV Virus
Mouse drop targets Guam's brown tree snake 
Melting Permafrost: Scientists Warn of Dangers of Trapped Carbon 
Allows you to Live without Breathing
Problem-solving Bacteria Crack Sudoku
Michigan State and the Wolverine Massacre
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Kills Seven in One Family 
Death of the Dinosaurs: New Proof of Asteroid Impact 
Supreme Court to Hear Major DNA Case
Genetically Modified Cells Could Prevent Death from HIV/AIDS
Texas BioLab Loses Deadly Virus
RePOOPulate
McDonalds Installing DNA Security Systems
DNA Cloning Expands into New Horizons
DNA Fingerprinting
DNA of Newtown Shooter to be Studied

Florida Asks FDA Approval to Eliminate Dengue Fever With Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
Nurses Fired over Refusing to get Flu Vaccine 
Flu Shots Working

Scientists make embryo using genes from 2 women and 1 man 
Cell Communication - G protein coupled receptor discovery
Popcorn Lung
Beige Cells fight Obesity
Creating Gold (thank you for finding this article, Andrew - GO GREEN!)
Genes
Epigenetics 
Biotechnology (Human Growth Hormone made by bacteria) 
Health and Medicine 
Cystic Fibrosis
Glowing Brain Tumors
Diabetes
Environment 
Living World 
Human Origins 
Evolution (first shark hybrid) 
Discovery of New Monkey
Rare Blue Lobster
Evolution (Extinct Galapagos Tortoise Reappears) 
Animal Behavior (dolphins) 
Plastic Chokes Oceans and Trashes Beaches
Giant Galapagos Tortoise Dies
Symbiotic Ants
Quadriplegic Moves Fingers After Nerve Surgery
Delayed Drowning
Gray Whales
Parkinson's Disease 
Experimental Cancer Drug (Immune System)
Brain tapeworms 1
Brain tapeworms 2

Useful Websites

Campbell Biology - 8th Edition, Mastering Biology (Ebook, practice quizzes, lab bench, word study, activities, videos)
Flinn PREP
Campbell Biology - 7th Edition 
(slides)
Campbell Biology - 7th Edition 
(outlines)
Collegeboard AP Biology Website 
AP Credit Policy Information
(Find college and universities with AP credit policy info)
AP Biology Exam Format Information
AP Biology Exam Score Calculator 
College Board 2013 AP Exam Review 
Previous Free Response Questions on AP Exam 
Bozeman clips (by AP Biology Practices and Big Ideas) 
Crash Course videos
NROC AP Biology Multimedia 
Pearson Lab Bench (info on old 12 AP labs)
Wolfram Alpha 
Quizlet (vocabulary help with flashcards) 
Biology Tutorials
Biology Simulations 
BioInteractive 
The University of Arizona - the biology project 
McGraw-Hill Virtual Labs 
Biology Online Dictionary 
4 Tests (Practice Test Questions) 
AP Biology Test Calculator (based on old format) 
SparkNotes Test Center (Practice Test Questions) - must create a free account
AP Biology Exam Review (flashcards by topic)
CliffsNotes Science 
CliffsNotes AP Tests 
Great AP Bio Exam Review Sites
Biology Corner
Order CliffsNotes 4th edition from Amazon (highly recommended) 
Ask for CliffsNotes 5th edition for a Christmas present 
SIGN UP TO GET YOUR AP SCORES HERE!!!

Important Documents

Syllabus
Safety Contract 
Info on the AP Biology Exam
Course and Exam Description 
13 P Exam
14 P Exam
15 P Exam
Campbell Biology 7th Edition Correlation
Formula sheet
Advice from 2011-12 AP Bio students
Sample mini-poster
Scientific Root Words 
End of Year Review (not updated to reflect curriculum changes)
BIO 111 Syllabus (Oakland University)
BIO 111 Syllabus (2)  
BIO 111 Syllabus (3)
Oakland AP Equivalencies
MSU AP Equivalencies (the best school :)
U of M AP Equivalencies 
Central AP Equivalencies
Eastern AP Equivalencies 
Western AP Equivalencies 
Wayne State AP Equivalencies 
Northern Michigan AP Equivalencies
AP Policy Search (for other schools not listed above)
KITE Tutoring AP Bio Exam Course

Assignments

SEMESTER 1

1ST MARKING PERIOD

WEEK 1

(due Thursday, 9-8-16)
1. Fill in the AP Biology About Me form 
2. Read syllabus (on blog under important documents) and get safety contract signed
3. Register for online book here using access using student access code

SSNAST-SUNUP-SKELF-TURVY-BEGUN-EANES 

(Choose no course ID, Campbell, Biology 8e MasteringBiology (For 5e–8e users) as the textbook

4. Register for FlinnPREP using code: 2ykpr

5. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Introduction to AP Biology - 4 big ideas introduced

(due Thursday, 9-24-15)
1. Read chapters 1 & 2 (pgs. 1-44 ebook)
2. Complete the ch.1-2 Reading guide (optional)
3. Watch Bozeman biology clip on 3 Domains of Life


WEEK 2

(due Wednesday, 9-21-16)
Brine Shrimp Lab Report Requirements
Brine Shrimp Lab 

(due Monday, 9-26-16)
1. Read chapters 3-5 (pgs. 46-90 ebook)
2. Complete the ch.3-4 Reading guide
3. Complete Unit 1 (Fundamental Biology Skills and Knowledge) on FlinnPrep
4. Complete the ch.5 Reading guide
5. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Water
6. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Biological Molecules
7. Watch Crash Course in Biology #1 (carbon)
8. Watch Crash Course in Biology #2 (water)
9. Watch Crash Course in Biology #3 (macromolecules)
10. Watch Bozeman clip on Proteins
11. Complete Unit 11 (Biochemistry) on FlinnPREP

WEEK 3

(due Monday, 9-26-16)
1. Read chapter 8 - pgs. 142-143, 151-159 only
2. Toothpickase - we will do this in class
3. Watch Bozeman Biology clip on enzymes
4. Watch the Bozeman Biology clip 2 on enzymes
5. Watch the Animation How Enzymes Work
6. Do the Enzymes virtual lab 

(due Monday, 9-26-16)
1. Complete the ch.2-5 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
2. Read Cliffs pgs. 11-24 (3rd and 4th ed.) - A GREAT WAY TO STUDY FOR THE TEST!!!!!!!!!!
3. Complete units 1 and 11 of FlinnPREP

WEEK 4

(due Tuesday, 9-27-16)
1. Free Response Practice in Class
2. Watch Bozeman clip on the New AP Biology Exam
3. Take the post unit 1 Survey 

(due Monday, 10-17-16)
1. Read chapter 6
2. Complete the chapter 6 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman Biology clip on Tour of a Cell
4. Watch Crash Course in Biology #4 (animal cell)
5. Watch Crash Course in Biology #6 (plant cell)
6. Evolution of Organelles (Endosymbiosis Theory) Tutorial
7. Cell Structure and Function Tutorial
8. Cell size activity - in class
9. Watch Cell Size video 
10. Watch Introduction to Cells
11. Complete Unit 2 (Cells: Structure and Function) on FlinnPREP

(due Monday, 10-17-16)
1. Read chapter 7
2. Complete the chapter 7 Reading guide
3. Watch KhanAcademy clip on Diffusion and Osmosis 
4. Watch Crash Course in Biology #5 (cell membrane)

(due Monday, 10-10-16)
1. Lab 1 Diffusion and Osmosis (1A-1E need to be completed)
2. Review LabBench (lab 1)
Lab 1 Powerpoint - Water Potential
1E - Onion Cell Plasmolysis (video)
1E - Elodea Plasmolysis (video)
3. Watch Bozeman Biology Clip on lab 1
4. Membrane Structure and Transport Tutorial
5. Watch Bozeman Clip on Cell Membranes 


WEEK 5

(due Monday, 10-17-16)
1. Read chapter 11 (Pearson or Cliffs packet only)
2. Cell Communication Activity - we will do this in class
3. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Cell Communication
4. Watch the 3D animation on Cell Signals
5. Do chapter 11 activities (4), then take the activity quiz on the Pearson site
6. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Signal Transduction
7. Watch the TED video on How Bacteria Talk 
8. Visit the Bassler Lab website
9. Membrane Dynamics and Cell Communication Tutorial

(due Monday, 10-17-16)
1. Read chapter 12
2. Complete the chapter 12 Reading guide
3. Watch Cell Cycle and Mitosis 
4. Mitosis Tutorial 2
5. Watch Mitosis video
6. Mitosis Virtual Lab
7. Cancerquest  
8. Read chapter 13
9. Complete the chapter 13 Reading guide 
10. Meiosis Tutorial
11. Meiosis Virtual Lab 
12. Visit NOVA website 
13. Watch Treating Cancer with Electric Fields (very interesting!)
14. Watch Crash Course in Biology #12 (mitosis)
15. Watch Crash Course in Biology #13 (meiosis)
16. Watch Bozeman biology clip on the Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Meiosis
17. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Mitosis/Meiosis Simulation
18. Watch Sex Determination video (very interesting!)
19. Lab 3 Mitosis and Meiosis
20. Complete Units 3 (Cell Cycle) & 4 (Meiosis:Heredity and Variation) on FlinnPREP


WEEK 6

(due Monday, 10-17-16)
1. Review Lab Bench (lab 3)  
2. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Lab 3
3. Complete the ch.6-7, 12-13 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
4. Read Cliffs (4th edition) pgs. 31-44, 73-93, 165-166 (endosymbiotic theory only), also includes ch.11 - cell communication
5. Complete Units 2-4 on FlinnPREP
6. Tips for Unit 2 Test


WEEK 7

(due Friday, 10-28-16)
2 Science Article Summaries - 3rd for 10 points extra credit - see requirements

(due Thursday, 11-10-16)
1. Read chapter 9
2. Complete the chapter 9 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Respiration 
4. Watch Crash Course in Biology #7 (cell respiration)
5. Cell Respiration Tutorial (aerobic vs. anaerobic)
6. Cell Respiration Tutorial 2
7. Watch Cell Respiration Song :)
8. Watch Cell Respiration Animation 

(due Thursday, 11-2-16)
Respiration Lab
Lab Report Requirements
Watch Bozeman biology clip on Respiration lab 


END OF MARKING PERIOD

WEEK 1

(due Thursday, 11-10-16)
1. Read chapter 10
2. Complete the chapter 10 Reading guide
3. Watch the simple story of photosynthesis - cute ;-)
4. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Photosynthesis 
5. Watch Crash Course in Biology #8 (photosynthesis) 
6. Lab 4 Photosynthesis (chromatography only) and Floating Leaf Disks Lab
7. Watch Bozeman biology clip on Photosynthesis lab
8. Watch video on Sinking discs 
9. Watch Tressel youtube clip on Photosynthesis 
10. Photosynthesis Tutorial 1
11. Photosynthesis Tutorial 2


WEEK 2

(due Thursday, 11-10-16)
1. Complete the ch.9-10 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
2. Review Respiration and Photosynthesis at this site (click on revise for tutorial, then test for each topic) 
3. Watch Bozeman Biology clip on Photosynthesis and Respiration 
4. Read Cliffs pgs. 45-72 (4th edition)
5. Complete Flinn PREP unit 12


WEEK 3

(due Thursday, 12-1-16)
1. Read chapter 14
2. Complete the chapter 14 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Mendelian Genetics 
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Genotypes & Phenotypes 
5. Mendel's Experiments (go to animation) 
6. Read over info on Mendel's Experiments 
7. Independent Assortment Tutorial 
8. Watch Bozeman clip on Punnett Squares
9. Do the Punnett Squares virtual lab 
10. Punnett Square Tutorial
11. Watch Crash Course in Biology #9 (heredity)


WEEK 4

(due Thursday, 12-1-16 )
1. Watch Bozeman clip on Probability in Genetics
2. Review the Chi Square Tutorial
3. Chi Square Analysis (Skittles) Lab
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Chi Square 
5. Try these genetics problems (1, 2, 4-7, 8ac, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20)
Watch out for answer key typos - 1) incomplete dominance and 11a) 1/4
6. Try these dihybrid cross problems 
7. Watch video clip on Epigenetics 
8. Read this article (about environmental triggers on genes)
9. Watch Crash Course on Epigenetics
10. Watch Pedigree Analysis 



WEEK 5

(due Thursday, 12-1-16)
1. Read chapter 15
2. Complete the chapter 15 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Chromosomal Inheritance 
4. Do the Sex-linked virtual lab 
5. Sex-linked Inheritance Problem Set
6. Read info on Linked and Sex-linked Genes
7. Watch Bozeman clip on Linked Genes
8. Watch Bozeman clip on X Inactivation
9. Watch Bozeman clip on Advanced Genetics
10. Visualizing Nondisjunction


(due Thursday, 12-1-16)
1. Complete the ch.14-15 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website 
2. Read Cliffs pgs. 101-122
3. Complete Flinn Prep Unit 5


WEEK 6

(due Tuesday, 12-20-16)
1. Read chapter 16
2. Complete the chapter 16 Reading Guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on DNA/RNA part 1
4. Watch Bozeman clip on DNA/RNA part 2
5. Watch Bozeman clip on DNA Replication  
6. Do the DNA Replication Tutorial 
7. DNA Structure and Replication Tutorial 2 
8. Watch and answer questions about the following video clips:
DNA Packaging 
Chemical Structure of DNA 
DNA Pair Strands
Chargaff's Ratio
Watson Constructing Base Pair Models
Coding Sequences in DNA 
DNA Replication 
9. Watch Crash Course in Biology #10 (DNA structure & replication) 
10. Telomere Tutorial
11. Watch Telomeres and Aging TED talk 
12.Watch this clip on DNA Replication 


WEEK 7

(due Friday, 12-16-16)
Fruit Fly Lab

(due Tuesday, 12-20-16)
1. Read chapter 17
2. Complete the chapter 17 Reading Guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Transcription & Translation 
4. Watch Bozeman clip on the Central Dogma 
5. Complete the Protein Synthesis tutorial - 2
6. Watch clip on RNA splicing 
7. Watch clip on translation 
8. Do interactive tutorials on protein synthesis (includes awesome diagrams of translation)
9. Watch Crash Course in Biology #11 (protein synthesis) 
10. Study for test using review sheet 
11. Transcription/Translation worksheet 1
12. Transcription/Translation worksheet 2 (challenge)
13. Watch Bozeman clip on Mutations
14. Complete the ch.16-17 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website  
15. Read Cliffs pgs. 123-134 
16. Watch these great review videos of DNA replication  and Protein synthesis 
17. Watch this great animation of translation 

(due Tuesday, 12-20-16)
2 Science Article Summaries - 3rd for 10 points extra credit - see requirements


2ND SEMESTER

WEEK 1

(due Monday, 1-30-17)
1. Read chapter 18
2. Complete the chapter 18 Reading Guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Viruses
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Viral Replication 
5. Watch How a Virus Invades Your Body
6. Lac Operon Tutorial
7. Trp Operon Tutorial 
8. Watch clip on Lac Operon 
9. Watch clip on Trp Operon
10. Build model of prokaryotic operon (lac and trp per group)
11. Watch streaking technique clip 
12. Bacteria Transformation (pGLO) Lab
13. MRSA - When Good Bacteria GO Bad (transformation) 
14. Watch Bozeman clip on Mechanisms that create genetic variation 


WEEK 2

(due Monday, 1-30-17)
1. Read chapter 19
2. Complete the chapter 19 Reading Guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Gene Regulation
4. Watch Crash Course on Epigenetics (review from earlier unit)
5. Visit and read this site on Nutrition and the Epigenome
6. Watch clip on RNA interference 
7. Watch Epigenetics video clip on twins and mice


WEEK 3

(due Monday, 1-30-17)
1. Read chapter 20
2. Complete the chapter 20 Reading guide
3. Watch plasmid clip
4. Watch growing bacteria plate (gross!)
5. Read article about bacteria making human growth hormones (article summary?) 
6. Watch clip on restriction enzymes (ECORI)
7. Restriction Enzymes: How is DNA Manipulated?
8. Recombinant Plasmid Activity
9. Complete the restriction enzyme digestion tutorial 
10. Restriction Mapping Tutorial
11. Review the DNA fingerprinting tutorial (review from biology class)
12. Complete the DNA fingerprinting tutorial and problems
13. Watch Bozeman clip on DNA fingerprinting
14. Watch Bozeman clip on Molecular Biology 
15. Complete PCR Animation  
16. Another PCR Animation 
17. Read info on cloning
18. Clone a mouse (review from biology class)
FYI only 19. Stem cell tutorial 1 (even though I like Green and White)
FYI only 20. Stem cell tutorial 2

(due Monday, 1-30-17)
1. Complete the ch.18-20 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website 
2. Read Cliffs pgs. 135-143

3. Complete Flinn Prep Unit 14 

WEEK 4

(due
1. Which of the following versions of Abiogenesis sounds most likely in your opinion? (write a 1-2 page position paper)
Research:
The Origin of Life
Campbell Website (go to ch.25 - Investigation: How Did Life Begin on Early Earth?) 
Did Life Evolve in Ice?
Is Deep Space the Birthplace of Life?  
Origin of Life: The Panspermia Theory 
Origin of Life on Earth: 'Natural Asymmetry of Biological Molecules May Have Come from Space'
The Volcanic Origin of Life
AP Biology book - pgs. 507-510 (chapter 25)
Cliffs book (4th ed) pgs. 164-166
Cliffs book (3rd ed) pgs. 139-140
2. Watch 5 Theories on the Origin of Life 
3. Watch Greatest Discoveries: Origin and Evolution
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Abiogenesis 
5. Watch Bozeman clip on Origin of Life - Scientific Evidence
6. Watch Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life


(due Monday, 2-20-17)
1. Read chapter 22
2. Complete the chapter 22 Reading guide
3. Evidence of Evolution Webquest
4. Watch Crash Course video on Evidence of Evolution 
5. Watch Bozeman clip on Evidence for Evolution 
6. Watch Bozeman clip on Natural Selection
7. Watch Bozemen clip on Examples of Natural Selection
8. Natural Selection Tutorial
9. Peppered Moth Tutorial
10. Peppered Moth video
11. What Darwin Never Knew (FYI)
12. Watch clip on Sexual Selection 
13. Watch Sexual Selection and Evolution 


WEEK 5

(due Monday, 2-20-17)
1. Read chapter 23
2. Complete the chapter 23 Reading guide
*3. Watch Bozeman clip on Solving Hardy Weinberg Problems
*4. Watch clip on Hardy-Weinberg Principle: Watch Your Ps and Qs
*5. Hardy-Weinberg Sample Problems
*6. Hardy-Weinberg Animation 
7. H-W Tutorial 
8. Read chapter 24
9. Complete the chapter 24 Reading guide
*10. Speciation Tutorial  
11. Watch Bozeman clip on Classification 
*12. Watch Bozeman clip on Speciation 
13. Watch Bozeman clip on Speciation and Extinction
14. Watch Crash Course video on Speciation
15. Watch Five Fingers of Evolution (microevolution) 


WEEK 6

(due Monday, 2-20-17)
1. Read chapter 25
2. Complete the chapter 25 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman clip on Macroevolution/History of Life on Earth
4. Lab 8 (answers to 1-6 Hardy-Weinberg Problems)
5. Review Lab Bench (lab 8) 
6. Read article on Extinct Galapagos Tortoise Reappearing

(due Monday, 2-20-17)
1. Read chapter 26
2. Complete the chapter 26 Reading guide
3. Watch Crash Course video on Taxonomy
4. Watch Bozeman clip on Cladograms
5. Pet Cemetary - DNA sequences
6. Watch Bozeman clip on Phylogenetics
7. BLAST homepage
8. Visit http://timetree.org/
*9. The Evolution of the Three Domains Tutorial 
10. Complete the ch.22-26 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website 
11. Read Cliffs pgs. 153-166 (4th edition)
12. Complete Flinn PREP Units 6-8

HAVE A NICE MID-WINTER BREAK!


WEEK 7


(due 3-9-17)
1. Read chapter 29
2. Complete the chapter 29 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman Clip on Land Plants
4. Watch Crash Course on Sex Lives of Nonvascular Plants
5. Ch.29 and 30 online activities
6. Life Cycle of a Conifer Tutorial
7. Fruit and flower dissection online prelab 
8. Do the Angiosperm Life Cycle Tutorial  
9. Do the Double Fertilization Tutorial
10. Watch clip on Double Fertilization 
11. Fruit and flower dissection lab
12. Watch Crash Course on Vascular Plants
13. Watch Crash Course on Reproduction of Vascular Plants
14. Read chapter 30
15. Complete the chapter 30 Reading guide


WEEK 8

(due 3-9-17)
1. Read chapter 35
2. Complete the chapter 35 Reading guide
3. Watch Bozeman Clip on Plant Structure
4. Read chapter 36
6. Complete the chapter 36 Reading guide
7. Watch Bozeman clip on AP lab 9 
8. Transpiration lab (AP lab 9) - using summer data :(
9. Review Lab Bench (lab 9)
10. Transpiration Virtual Lab 
11. Pressure Flow Model Tutorial 
12. Watch Bozeman clip on Plant Transport 
13. Plant Hormones Tutorial (not on our test but could be on the AP Bio exam)
14. Bozeman Clip on How to Find Stomata 
15. Watch review clip on water potential
16. Complete the ch.29-30, 35-36 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
17. Read Cliffs pgs. 181-183 (4th edition) and review Pearson packet (ch.29-30, 35-36)

WEEK 9

(due Friday, 3-17-17)
Final Round of Science Article Summaries - 3rd for 10 points extra credit - see requirements

1. Read chapter 32
2. Complete the chapter 32 Reading guide
3. Read chapter 33
4. Complete the chapter 33 Reading guide
5. Visit PBS website - Shape of Life 
6. Gastrulation tutorial
7. Online dissections:
    Earthworm
    Grasshopper
    Crayfish
    Clam
    Starfish
    Salmon (vertebrate - just for fun)
8. Invertebrate Dissections in class :-)
9. The Life Cycle of Cnidarians Tutorial 
10. Watch Crash Course video on Simple Animals 
11. Watch Crash Course video on Complex Animals 

WEEK 10

1. Animal Phyla Matching Part 1
2. Watch Bozeman clip on Animals 
3. Read chapter 34
4. Complete the chapter 34 Reading guide
5. Watch Crash Course video on Chordates
6. Complete the ch.32-34 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
7. Read Cliffs pgs. 157-160 (3rd edition)
8. Read Pearson review packet pgs. 186-197


4th Marking Period


WEEK 1

1. Watch Chimpanzee
2. Read chapter 51
3. Watch Imprinting (goose) video clip 
4. Watch Monarch Butterfly migration video clip 
5. Watch Kin selection in bees
6. Watch Bozeman clip on Animal Behavior 
7. Animal Behavior Labs - Flies, Pillbugs and Termites




WEEK 2

(due Friday, 3-31-17)
1. Read chapter 48 - Nervous System
2. Complete the chapter 48 Reading Guide
3. Watch Crash Course video on the Nervous System
4. The Resting Membrane Potential Tutorial 
5. The Action Potential Tutorial 
6. Synaptic Transmission Tutorial
7. Molecular Mechanisms of Muscle Contraction Tutorial  
8. Watch Animation:Transmission across a synapse (this is helpful)
9. Read chapter 45 - Endocrine System
10. Complete the chapter 45 Reading Guide
11. Watch Crash Course on the Endocrine System 
12. Ovarian and Uterine Cycles tutorial 


WEEK 3

(due Friday, 3-31-17)
* do 1-10 to review all systems other than Endocrine, Immune & Nervous
1. Read paragraph and watch the animation on positive vs. negative feedback
2. Watch Bozeman clip on Organ Systems
3. Watch Bozeman clip on the Digestive System 
4. Digestion and Absorption of Fats Tutorial
5. Watch Bozeman clip on the Respiratory System 
6. Airflow in Mammals Tutorial
7. Watch Bozeman clip on the Circulatory System
8. The Cardiac Cycle Tutorial 
9. Watch Bozeman clip on Osmoregulation/ The Excretory System

10. Mammalian Kidney Tutorial 

11. Read chapter 43 - Immune System
12. Complete the chapter 43 Reading Guide
13. Watch Bozeman clip on the Immune System 
14. Cells of the Immune System Tutorial
15. Immune System Tutorial
16. Watch Crash Course video on the Immune System
17. Complete the ch.43, 45, 48 chapter quizzes on the Campbell website
18. Read Cliffs pgs. 191-210
19. Read Pearson review packet 
20. Look over test review 

HAPPY SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!