First Week Back After Christmas Holidays

Welcome back!

It is hard to believe how quickly time passes. I hope everyone had a restful and enjoyable Christmas and New Year's and are now ready to finish what remains of AP Biology. Here is what I was thinking we would do the first week back:

Monday January 5th, 2009 (Oh my! It is 2009!):

• Correct Ch. 24 mc questions
• Do AP Biology Lab #8

Tuesday January 6th, 2009:

• Start Unit 8: Diversity of Life 1 (Taxonomy, Survey of Prokaryotes, Protists, & Fungus)
• Chapters 25, 26, 27, 28, & 31!

Wednesday January 7th, 2009:

• AP Biology Lab #6: Bacterial Transformation of Firefly gene DUE!

Thursday January 8th, 2009:

• Early Dismissal! Period 6 moves into Period 2

See you soon!

Molecular Genetics Exam!

Hey Everyone!



As a class we decided that our next exam on Molecular Genetics would be this Wednesday December 10th. The exam format is as follows:



Part 1: 45 Multiple Choice Questions (45 marks)



Part II: Free Response Question (10 marks)

• students must answer one of three essay questions


• topics include: information transfer (replication, transcription, translation, transformation, transduction, conjugation); OR operon hypothesis and protein synthesis in bacteria cells; OR genetic engineering

We will prepare for this exam on Tuesday during Period 6.

Start studying now!

Unit 5: Mendelian Genetics Exam

Our next exam will be this Friday November 21st! The exam will consist of ONLY 50 multiple choice questions. Topics worth investigating include:

• Gregor Mendel and his experiments on pea plants;
• Mendel's two laws: law of independent assortment & law of segregation;
• Basic Mendelian genetics (complete dominance/ dominant & recessive alleles; homozygous/ heterozygous/ test cross/ genotype/ phenotype/ monohybrid & dihybrid crosses);
• Modified Mendelian Genetics (codominance, incomplete dominance, and multiple alleles)
• Epistasis/ Polygenic inheritance/ Pleiotropy
• Autosomes/ Sex Chromosomes (Sex-linked genetic traits & sex determination)
• Linked genes
• Genetic recombination
• Gene mapping
• Mutations

Good luck studying!

LAB HELP!

If you are wanting extra help preparing for the AP labs visit: www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/index.html

Hope this helps!
Ms Roach

Next Week's (October 27th- 31st) Schedule

Monday October 27th:

• Meiosis Drawing Assignment due
• Unit 4: Cell Reproduction (Mitosis/ Meiosis) Exam
• Read Lab #4: Plant Pigments & Photosynthesis

Tuesday October 28th:

• Lab #4: Plant Pigments & Photosynthesis
• HOMEWORK: Read Lab #1: Osmosis & Diffusion

Wednesday October 29th:

• Lab #1: Osmosis & Diffusion
• HOMEWORK: Read Lab #5: Cellular Respiration

Thursday October 30th:

• Lab #5: Cellular Respiration
• HOMEWORK: Read Lab #2: Enzyme Catalysis

Friday October 31st:

• Lab #2: Enzyme Catalysis
• HOMEWORK: Read Lab #3: Mitosis & Meiosis

DUE DATES TO BE DETERMINED BY THE CLASS!

Unit 4: Cell Reproduction Exam

Material tested: Chapters 12 (The Cell Cycle & Mitosis) & 13 (Meiosis & Sexual Life Cycles)

Exam format:

• Section 1: 45 Multiple Choice Questions
• Section 2: Free Response Question (Students are to answer one of three questions. Topics include: similarities and differences between mitosis and meiosis; sexual life cycles; and genetic variation)

Exam date: TBA

Unit 3: Cell Energetics Exam

Your next AP Biology exam will be on Wednesday October 15th, 2008. It will cover Chapters 6, 9, and 42 (pp. 886-897). There will be no content from Chapter 10 (Photosynthesis) because you have an essay on this topic also due on Wednesday October 15th, 2008. The exam will have the following format:

Total Marks: 50 marks
Total Time: Periods 5 and 6

Section 1: Multiple Choice (40 questions/ 40 marks)

Section 2: Free Response Question (1 of 2 possible questions/ 10 marks)

• Aerobic cellular respiration
• Cellular respiration and its relationship to the mammalian respiratory system