Monday, April 20, 2009

Week of 4/20/09

BIOLOGY
Well, this week we finally move on to our final topic of the year...Animals. Our weekly procedure will be somewhat different with note sheets provided and topics covered in 1 week. This week lecture will include general animal characteristics with special emphasis on phylum Cnidaria coral and jelly fish. I'm planning a test by Monday or Tuesday next week.Lab report will be due 4/28 Tuesday.

AP BIOLOGY
Our focus for the week will be DNAand will include models, composition, replication and ultimately conversion to protein through transcription and translation. We will be doing a few paper lab activities that don't require lab reports. Our electrophoresis activity will require a report and it will be due Monday 4/27

Friday, April 3, 2009

FridayApril3-Friday April 17,2009

BIOLOGY
We will use these 7 days(time out for Easter Break) to finish up our discussion of ecology. 4/3 will start with a quiz and progress to lecture on survivorship curves.
4/6-7 we will work on an activity creating a survivorship curve.Report due 4/8
Easter Tuesday & Wednesday will be discussions on Human impact on the environment. Thursday we will review and Friday 4/17 we'll have our unit test.

AP BIOLOGY
We will wrap up our topic of EVOLUTION before Easter Break with a test on TUESDAY 4/7. Lab notebooks are due before Easter Break and should include:biochemical evidence for evolution, orgami birds, Fishy Frequency, and Beaks of Finches. Easter Tuesday will be an intro lecture/ review on Classical genetics with time for Punnett squares. Wednesday we will concentrate on DNA as the basis for heredity and work on a reinforcement sheet. Thursday will be the structure of DNA including Replication, transcription/translation with a paper lab depicting each process.