pg 84 Education Portal

Go to the AP Biology page on Education Portal

Pick 2 areas where you feel you need more time with.

On page 84 write down the two areas that you picked and make a plan for the next three weeks of how you are going to learn more about these areas (outside of class)

The AP Biology test is 3 weeks from today (it is Monday May 13)

Wednesday stuff

Finish up the questions from Monday.
If you are done, then go to this link
education portal

This has information on all objectives that will be tested on the AP Biology test.  Pick an objective that interests you or one you feel that you need more information on.  Follow the links and learn :)
Take notes on the next 2 pages (which should be 82-83)

Information for Monday April 22, 2013

Get a computer and turn it on
Tape the last ACT practice questions on the next 3 blank pages (pgs 74-76 ish???)

Take about 15 minutes (5 for each prompt) to read and answer the questions.  The sub will go over the answers.  
(the answers for Passage V are B, H, C, J. A. J)

On pages 79-81 ( or the next 3 blank pages after the ACT practice stuff) answer the following questions.  If you need to research the answers, do that.  All answers should be complete thoughts (bullet points are fine as long as I can tell what you are talking about -- you should have a minimum of 3 ideas or bullet points per question)

1. What are the advantages of asexual reproduction?
2. What are the advantages of sexual reproduction?
3. What are some different types of asexual reproduction?  Give examples of organisms that perform asexual reproduction.
4. What attributes (characteristics) are used to pair homologous chromosomes (how do you put together chromosomes to make a karyotype)?
5. Why is it necessary for gametes (sex cells) to be haploid?
6. How many chromosomes does a normal human skin cell have?  How many chromosomes does a normal human sperm cell have? (for the question you can have 2 bullet points)
7. How can you tell the difference between a karyotype of a normal human male and a normal human female? (one bullet point is sufficient here)
8. Describe at least one situation in which it would be beneficial for a person to have his or her karyotype examined
9. If you observed a human chromosome spread under the microscope and discovered that the sample contains 47 chromosomes, what would you conclude from this observations?
10. What disorder would you assign to a human karyotype that contains three chromosomes in the 21st location?

Cancer out of control cells & a few more resources for info on the cell cycle

Click here for a short article on Cancer.  There are questions at the end that should help deepen your understanding of Cancer and how it relates to the cell cycle (info should go on pages 58-59)

Guided notes for a different book (Raven Biology), but still good information -- click here --

Guided notes from another version of the Campbell book 
--click here--

mitosis animations
stolaf.edu
cells alive
wormclassroom 
mitosis and cytokinesis (take the quiz at the end for bonus points -- email the results)
sumanasinc
johnkyrk

Info about apoptosis

Fix notebooks

Work on existing pages to have a better understanding of learning objectives for the cell cycle. Once you have evidence that you have interacted with the material more, you can re-take the test. 

Retakes will start on Monday :)

pgs 63-64 Meiosis only information

pg 63 may have some information about mitosis vs meiosis, but is should also have info on just meiosis (probably the table shown below)

pg 64 labeled drawings of meiosis (see picture below)

pg 62 Mitosis vs Meiosis

What is the difference between mitosis and meiosis?  (and why really did biologists name two similar processes so . . . .similar?)

Mitosis vs Meiosis t-chart

Click here for a NOVA animation to help with the differences.  

Please take notes on page 62 (from the above resources)
 
Really corny animation and song!  Meiosis square dance 

Take this quiz and e-mail the results to me (and to yourself)

 

Nova: Can we live forever? (and do we want to?)

As we now know about the cell cycle, the question becomes, why do we care about it and what sort of scientific advances are being made because of our knowledge?

Today we watched a NOVA: Science NOW episode called "Can We Live Forever?"

Click here to go to the site and watch if you missed it