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Assignment
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Fourth Quarter Starts 3/19 |
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| 3/7-8 |
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Cell Cycle quiz |
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last grade of the quarter! |
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Lab: Expose onion root tips to the chosen variable |
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Tips need to be harvested and fixed by Friday!!! |
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finish writing the procedure and experimental design |
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notes: finish mitosis: stem cells, prokaryotes |
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| 3/9 and 3/12 |
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Harvest, fix, evaluate root tips |
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work on research project |
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worksheet: Mitosis and the Cell cycle |
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due next class |
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| 3/13-14 |
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Notes: Meiosis |
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work on research project |
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due next week! |
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| 3/19-20 |
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Notes - stages of Meiosis |
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activity: Karyotypes |
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due next class |
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an on-line activity to practice karyotyping as well as analyzing one |
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finish Onion Mitosis reports |
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due next class |
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| 3/21-22 |
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NCA Reading activity |
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Meiosis notes |
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TED talk - viral cancers |
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a 10 min. TEDtalk on the virus that is causing cancer in the Tasmanian Devil |
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Mitosis/Meiosis worksheet |
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Onion Mitosis reports are due today |
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| 3/23 and 3/26 |
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mitosis and meiosis card sort |
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Taboo game with cell cycle terms |
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Cell cycle review questions |
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due next class |
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Genetics problems - I |
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due next class |
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| 3/27-28 |
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Cell cycle review problems due |
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Go over genetics problems - "fix" problems |
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Genetics problems II |
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demonstrating meiosis and mitosis |
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lab activity: practicing using the micropipettes |
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DNA fingerprint simulation |
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lab activity: practicing using micropipetters and electrophoresis |
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| 3/29-30 |
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Cell cycle / cell division unit test |
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PCR on-line animation |
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preparation for next week's lab activity |
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DNA worksheet |
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due next time |
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download lab directions for next week - read |
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Quiz next class on Basic genetics worksheets |
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| 4/2-3 |
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DNA basics quiz |
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lab "investigating your own DNA" |
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students will be extracting their own DNA and analyzing it for a specific gene sequence using PCR |
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handout: incomplete dominance and pedigree analysis |
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| 4/4-5 |
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Finish DNA lab - electrophoresis and analysis |
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due next class |
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Discuss: DNA structure, incomplete dominance, and pedigrees |
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quiz next time |
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Sex-linked pedigree |
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due next class |
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| 4/10-11 |
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worksheets due |
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discuss any questions on sex-linked traites, PCR |
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Chicken project research |
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due next M/T |
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background research on testosterone, epinephrine, and placebos as well as the probable effects |
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Discussion: Replication, transcription, and translation of DNA |
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notes are already on the T-drive |
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activity: translating the code |
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students will translate DNA codes into sentences |
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Chicken clean-up sign-up is thursday morning starting at 7:30 am |
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| 4/12-13 |
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Discuss: gene regulation |
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a discussion on the concept of operons |
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DNA Goes to the Races activity |
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a look at restriction enzymes and how they work and aid the process of placing genes from one organism into another |
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handout: review |
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test on Wed./Th |
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Download chicken lab requirements - discuss |
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| 4/16-17 |
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Chicken Background information due |
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individual |
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Genetics test review |
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test next class |
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practice problems |
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TED talk - Bioengineering: Should there be rules? |
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| 4/18-19 |
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Genetics test |
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start chicken lab |
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assign: pp. 76-80, questions 1-7 |
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make sure you have all of the required measurements/observations |
| 4/20 and 4/23 |
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Go over test |
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Start signing up for the CSI unit teams |
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5 max on a team - no more than 2 from the same class; 2 physics students on a team; students that are on both classes count as 2 |
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Textbook assignment |
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due next class |
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questions from pp 78 and 80 1-7 |
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chicken lab observations |
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Discuss: carbohydrate metabolism (review from muscle unit) |
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pH, reactions, bond types |
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Discuss chicken results that should be expected |
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| 4/24-25 |
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Crime Scene sign up |
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need to be done by Tues. after school |
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Crime Scene Wed. Night!!! |
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each team must send at least one person. may send more. Go to room 201 after school. |
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Chicken observations |
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Discuss: Carbohydrate metabolism |
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Glycolysis, Kreb's cycle, and the ETS |
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NSU review questions |
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mini-quiz next class |
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finish working on organic molecules chart |
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due next class |
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| 4/26-27 |
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NSU quiz |
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organic molecules chart due |
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CSI- read statements, look at book |
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may start on blood spatter analysis |
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| 4/30 - end of year |
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CSI unit |
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| 5/10-11 |
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CSI knowledge test |
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