pgs92-94 Evidence for Evolution activities

go to adaptive curriculum
Log-on (puhsmt-#####)
Click play "Evidence of Evolution"  
There are 6 small activities assigned to you
Each activity should have questions to answer.   
Two activities per page.

pgs 88-91 Shark Dichotomous Key

pg 88

pg 89

pg 90

 pg 91

pgs 86-87 Becoming Human part 2

Becoming Human Part 2

Questions 8-13 go on page 86 (most of these questions should be answered from part 1 -- click here for video)

Questions 14-20 go on page 87 
Click here for the link to episode 2

pg 81 Conclusion questions for allelic frequency lab

Remember this information for the conclusion questions below

NATURAL SELECTION AND ALLELIC FREQUENCY

Evolution can best be described as a change in the number of genes for a trait over time. Natural selection can place pressure on specific phenotypes (brown rabbit or white rabbit). In this activity you will simulate the effects of the eagles preying on the rabbits. In this environment white rabbits (genotype bb) were easiest to spot.

The brown rabbits (BB or Bb) blend in better than the white rabbits, therefore only 25% of the brown rabbits die each generation, whereas 100% of the white rabbits die.

CONCLUSION QUESTIONS 
(USE THESE TO WRITE 2 PARAGRAPHS ON PG 81)

Did either allele disappear? Why or why not?
What does your graph show about allelic frequencies and natural selection? 
What would happen to the allelic frequencies if the number of eagles declined?
What did you learn or find interesting in this lab?
What did you find difficult or hard to understand in this lab? 

Fixing stuff

Notebook check tomorrow (Thursday)
Please have everything up through page 85 completed

• This includes pages 82-83 constructed response when the sub was here
• REMEMBER -- constructed response does not necessarily equal essay!!  
• Click here for the original post

pg 85 Becoming Human (questions 1-7)

While watching Becoming Human, please answer the questions provided in class

Click here if you missed the video to watch

pg 84 What Darwin Never Knew notes

Today you will watch the video "What Darwin Never Knew"
Please take notes as you watch the video, and if you have any questions, write those down as well

Click here for a link to the video

pgs 82-83 Constructed respose prompts

You will receive 2 constructed response questions.  Please answer one on each page (82 & 83)

You may work with a partner, you will be given some short readings on Lamarck and Darwin to help with one of the prompts.  You will be given 30-40 minutes to complete your responses (Use the generic rubric on the back of the page to help).  You will then be given a content specific rubric to compare your answer to.

pgs 80-81 Allelic Frequency Lab

Procedures

1. Place 50 dark beans and 50 light beans into the bag. 
2. Shake the bag. Remove two beans. These represent 1 rabbit’s genotype (BB or Bb or bb).
3. As you remove pairs of beans, arrange and neatly organize the beans in two columns representing the two possible phenotypes (brown or white).
4. Examine the columns. Remove 25% (every 4th one) of the brown rabbits and 100% (all) of the white rabbits. 
5. Count the number of dark beans and white beans remaining. Record data in your data table.
6. Calculate % of both alleles. Record in your data table.
7. Begin the next generation by placing 100 beans into the bag. The proportions of beans should be the same as the percentages you calculated in Step 6.
8. Repeat steps 3 through 8 collecting data for 5 generations 
9. Graph the % or frequencies for each allele over 5 generations. Use a different color for each allele   (B or b). 

What you need on page 80 (completed with your data) as well as a graph (1 GRAPH 2 LINES) with the % or frequency over 5 generations.  We will complete page 81 next week.

 

pgs 78-79 Intro to Natural Selection

Go to adaptivecurriculum.com (puhsmt-######)

Click on assignments (top left).  The assignment Natural selection should be assigned to you
Go through the module with a partner, write down information that you think is important on pages 78-79 including answers to the questions found in the learner journal.

Once you have completed the module take the assessment individually (one person takes it and then logs out of adaptive curriculum, the other person then logs in and takes the assessment)

AIMS prep (Thursday & Friday)

The AIMS science test is next Wednesday April 10th.
To prepare, we are going through the study guide and practice test.  
You can also log-onto study island and there are tutorials there.
Although it isn't required for graduation, you can only take the test once and it goes on your transcript forever.  As long as you take the test seriously and take your time (remember it is un-timed), there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to meet or exceed on this test.

pgs74-75 Function Finders

From a DNA sequence, determine the amino acid sequence and then the protein produced (as well as it's function)
It is amazing what proteins can do!! :)

Click here for the DNA sequence sheet
Click here for the DNA codon wheel
Click here for the protein profiles

Tree Map pg 72-73

Using the Investigation sheet from adaptive curriculum (pg 72) 

Create a tree map on pg 73

Welcome Back! Protein synthesis activity (pgs 70-71)

We are going to focus this week on DNA's function.  
In groups of three, get a computer
Go to Adaptive Curriculum
I will give you the log-on number to use (it isn't the computer's # this time)
Once logged on, search for DNA
Go through the lesson titled "DNA to Protein Synthesis"
 
Answer the following questions in your notebook on pages 70-71

Section 1 (#1) Section 2 (#2-8) Section 3 (#9-10) Section 4 (#11) Section 5 (#12)

1. Is there an ideal condition at which bacteria can survive?  Explain
2. Where does protein synthesis begin in a cell?  Explain
3. What is needed to start protein synthesis?
4. What is the base pairing rule? What is the difference between DNA and RNA rules?
5. What does AUG code for?
6. What is a codon?
7. What is a stop codon?
8. What do antibiotics do?
9. What is the "central dogma" process?
10. What is the start codon?
11. Give two examples of proteins that perform vital functions within the cell
12. How are proteins used in the metabolic processes of the cells within an organism?

Take the assessment at the end and write down your score on page 71 (retake if you don't get 100%)

finishing things up

Working on finishing things up for the quarter. 
Notebook check on Tuesday!!!!


pg 65 read and fill in blanks for this page that we didn't get to on Thursday

pg 60 Ladybug karyotype analysis and conclusion
•Which type of chromosome abnormality is the most difficult to detect by means of a karyotype? Explain
•How can duplication of a chromosome of the first pair produce a double head and, at the same time, affect the wing pigmentation and body segmentation?
•What kind of information is required in using karyotypes to detect genetic disorders in real organisms?

pgs 64-66 DNA extraction

DNA extraction lab goes on pages 64-66


Make sure that you copied the whiteboard into your table on page 66

Answer all questions on all pages

pg 61 DNA notes

Notes for DNA should be on page 61

pgs62-63 SSA and goal sheet

pg 62 Student self assessment for DNA intro and extraction

pg 63 Goal sheet for learning the information

pgs 56-60 Ladybug karyotype

What is a karyotype?  Why are they important in Biology?

Complete the karyotype activity.  
pgs 56-57 Background info and procedures
pgs 58-59 Karyotypes
pg 60 Analysis and conclusion

(extra copy of the lab here)

pg 54-55 Gender and Sex determination

Log on, check it out, read it carefully, and answer the questions :-)  Click here for handout
Site 1: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/gender
Site 2: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/gender/

pg 53 Find the Heir

Log on to the adaptive curriculum website
log in using METROTECH#@PHOENIXUNION.ORG  (# is your computer #)
password is ;-)

Search "heir", you should see this

 Click play and follow the directions
At the bottom of the popup window there is a blue square, click on it

It will give you a student sheet -- you should be able to answer all of the fill in the blank questions on page 1, you need to copy the data table from page 2 and answer the questions that are after the data table

pg 49 lyme disease research

49 Five Questions about Lyme Disease.
Suppose you or a family member contracted Lyme Disease...do some online research (cite your sources), and prepare useful answers to these 4+1 questions.
1.  What is Lyme Disease?
2.  What happens to people with Lyme Disease?
3.  Can Lyme disease be cured?
4.  How is Lyme disease treated?
5.  How much influence should insurance companies have in determining which treatments patients should have?

pgs 50-52 research on genetics

Log on to the adaptive curriculum website
log in using METROTECH#@PHOENIXUNION.ORG  (# is your computer #)
password is ;-)
search for GENETICS
and take notes while viewing
p.50 = GENE FLOW
p.51 = GENETIC DRIFT
p.52 = CLONING

work for the week of Feb 4th

I will be gone Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Work on the pages that we put into the notebook on Friday

pg 39 Movie Notes (10 things you found interesting and 2 questions from the video)

pg 40 Dominance of Alleles

pg 41 Dominance of Alleles  pt 2 (more pics of cows & flowers)

pg 42 Multiple Alleles in Blood Groups

pg 43 Multiple Alleles in Blood Groups pt 2 (more people and babies)

pg 44 Lethal Alleles

pg 45 Problems in Mendelian Genetics 

pg 46 Problems in Mendelian Genetics pt 2 (pic of a Guinea pig and duck on this page)

pgs37-38 Oompa Loompa

Review of everything we have done so far, and an intro into incomplete dominance :)

pgs 33-36 more dihybrid stuff

pgs 29-32 Guinnea Pig Genetics

Complete the dihybrid crosses on the following pages.
Remember to use color to help in determining the phenotypic ratios!

pg 28 (second half)

pg 28 Current Science Article Reflection

Pick an article from the Current Science Magazine
Read it and write a reflection -- what you learned and why it matters . .
Reflections should be close to a paragraph or even more

pg 27 Plastic Egg Genetics

adding to page 15 (more vocab stuff)

Notebook check

Notebook check today!!  If you weren't here or didn't have your book, I need to see it tomorrow in order for you to receive a passing grade for progress reports (remember, grades are always fixable)

17-18 finish investigating inherited traits

pg 17 Work on picture of offspring

pg 15 add terms (and definitions for those terms)

• genotype
• phenotype

pg 18 Answer the following questions

1. What are the possible genotypes of the parents of an offspring who has wavy (Hh) hair?
2. Would you predict that another pair of students in your class would have an offspring genetically identical to yours?  Support your answer
3. Do you think anyone in your class has all the same genetic traits that you have?  Explain your answer
4. How is this coin-toss model similar to the way in which traits are inherited in living things?  How is the model different?

pg 22 Movie Notes -- Life episode

On page 22

• 10 things I thought were interesting about the episode
• 2 questions I have about the content of the episode

pgs 16-21 Investigating inherited traits and Mendel reading

pg 16 Investigating inherited traits (introduction should be "marked up" -- highlighted, cirlces, underlines, etc)

pg 17 Data for Investigating inherited traits (this should include results of coin flipping as well as picture of offspring)

pg 18 conclusion for investigating inherited traits (we will work on this Tuesday)

pg 19 Genetics 1 (reading about Mendel)

pg 20 Mendel's Experiments (reading about Mendel cont)

pg 21 Flower diagram (conclusion of reading about Mendel)

15 Genetics Vocab page

13-14 Gleeps

Gleeps activity pgs 13 & 14

Intro to Genetics

Can you predict what an offspring would look like from their parents?? How did Mendel figure this stuff out???

First Week Back

First week is done!
We made pudding, talked about enzymes and set up our notebooks for the semester.  
Below is a slideshow of all you should have in your notebook :)

Welcome to Spring 2013

Welcome!! 
Happy New Year!
Remember to check the blog often for information of what happens in class daily :)

last minute info :)

resources for studying

click here for some helpful on-line quizzes and reviews for final.  The chapters may not be the same, look for the correct content.
This link goes with our book and also may be helpful in studying.