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INSTRUCTIONAL PACKAGE
BIO 101
Biological Sciences I
201410
Fall 2014
INSTRUCTIONAL PACKAGE
Effective Term: 201410
COURSE PREFIX: BIO 101
CONTACT HOURS: 3-3
COURSE TITLE: Biological Sciences I
CREDIT HOURS: 4.0
RATIONALE FOR THE COURSE:
This course will provide the student with the foundation required for any advanced level biology
course.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is a study of the scientific methods, basic biochemistry, cell structure and function,
cell physiology, cell reproduction and development, Mendelian genetics, population genetics,
natural selection, evolution and ecology. This course is transferable to public senior institutions
as part of the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education Statewide Articulation
Agreement.
PREREQUISITES:
(COMPASS Reading 85 and COMPASS Writing 65) or SAT Critical Reading 460 and (ACT
Reading 16 or ACT English 19)
ENG 101 Minimum Grade of C or Credit level ENG 101 Minimum Grade of TC or
ENG 155 Minimum Grade of C or Credit level ENG 155 Minimum Grade of TC or
ENG 100 Minimum Grade of C
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
Please visit the Bookstore online site for most current textbook information. Use the direct link
below to find textbooks.
http://hortec.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TBWizardView?catalogId=10001&langId
=-1&storeId=51560.
Enter the semester, course prefix, number and section and it will take you to the correct textbook.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
For Hybrid Students Only: Each student will be required to view an orientation PowerPoint
presentation during the first week of class. This presentation can be found on the course
homepage in D2L under News. After viewing the presentation, all online students must
complete the orientation quiz which can be found under the quizzes link. A student will not be
considered officially enrolled in the course until the presentation has been viewed and the quiz
completed with a 100% score. Any submitted work from the student including discussion posts,
assignments, etc… will not be given a grade until the presentation has been viewed and the quiz
has been submitted. Failure to view the presentation and take the quiz before midnight on the
last day to add/drop classes will result in the student being automatically dropped from the
course.
HGTC ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Horry-Georgetown Technical College maintains a general attendance policy requiring students to
be present for a minimum of eighty percent (80%) of his or her classes in order to be eligible to
receive credit for any course. However, due to the varied nature of courses taught at the college,
a more rigid attendance policy may be required by individual instructors. At a minimum, a
student may be withdrawn from a course(s) after he or she has been absent in excess of ten
percent (10%) of the total contact hours for a course. Instructors define absentee limits for their
class at the beginning of each term.
The Add/Drop Period is the first 5 days of the semester for full term classes. Add/Drop periods
are shorter for accelerated format courses. The first week of the semester is also the Financial
Aid Attendance Verification period. You must attend at least one meeting of all of your classes
during that period. If you do not, you will be dropped from the course(s) and your Financial Aid
will be reduced accordingly.
Lecture Attendance for Face-to-Face Courses:
For a 14 week course (fall and spring) the allowed number of misses for a MW or TR class is as
follows: 4 absences are allowed for lecture, regardless of reason. After the allowed number of
misses, the student will be dropped automatically from the course with a W or a WF. Remember
an absence is an absence, no matter if it is excused or not!
Lab Attendance for Non-Hybrid Courses:
In-person lab attendance is required. Students are allowed one lab absence for a lab that meets
weekly. A student will be dropped from the course, on the next absence (2nd absence for weekly
lab). Remember an absence is an absence, no matter if it is excused or not!
Online Lecture Attendance for Hybrid Courses:
All online students are required to maintain contact with the instructor on a regular basis in order
to be counted as "in attendance" for on-line courses. Each student will be required to show
active participation in a course every week. Activities, such as, submitting a dropbox assignment,
posting on a discussion board, taking an exam/quiz or email correspondence with the instructor
through D2L, will be considered active participation and may be used as attendance. It is a
student’s responsibility to ensure they are active in the class, and to verify attendance with the
professor. Students showing no activity in the course for two weeks will be withdrawn due to
lack of attendance. Your professor may have a specific method for documenting attendance such
as specific assignments or discussion posts. Refer to your instructor’s information sheet for
details. Please note, for hybrid courses, in which students attend on-site labs, lab attendance is
recorded separately and participation in lab activities does NOT apply toward lecture attendance.
Lab Attendance for Hybrid Courses:
Students in hybrid classes in which labs only meet 5 times during the semester, must ATTEND
ALL lab sessions. Failure to attend ONE lab will result in immediate withdrawal. Students in
hybrid classes where labs meet every week, you are allowed ONE lab absence and will be
withdrawn on the second absence.
Students should refer to an Instructor’s Individual Information Sheets for more specific
information on testing policies, grading, make-up policy, attendance policies, etc.
HGTC WITHDRAWAL POLICY:
Students needing to withdraw from a course or courses can do so through Wavenet. Withdrawal
before the sixth day of the term is considered a “drop” and will not show on the official
transcript. Withdrawal from the sixth day of the term through the two-thirds point of the term
results in a grade of “W”. Students who withdraw after the two-thirds point will receive either a
grade of a “W” (if passing the course at the time of withdrawal), or the course instructor can
assign a grade of “WF” (if the student is not passing the course at the time of withdrawal).
Students should discuss their withdrawal plans and the grade they will receive with their
instructor prior to withdrawal. Counselors are also available to assist with personal concerns. It is
very important that students check with financial aid concerning the implications of a
withdrawal.
STUDENT COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Listed below are the student learning outcomes for this course. These learning outcomes define
what knowledge and skills a student will possess after successful completion of this course.
Chapter 1
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Chapter 4
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Define biology
Use examples to illustrate the themes of biology.
Summarize how evolution accounts for the unity and diversity of life.
List in order, the levels of biological organizations, and cite an example of each
level
Explain the characteristics of living things.
Show how living things are classified
Describe the process of scientific inquiry, and evaluate the importance of
collaboration and diverse viewpoints to scientific progress.
Describe matter, chemical elements, and chemical compounds.
Use examples to illustrate how the structure of an element's atoms determines its
properties.
Identify and describe the types of strong and weak chemical bonds, and use
examples to show how bonds affect molecular shape.
Describe the meaning of chemical reaction in words. Identify four properties of
water that are important for life and describe how they result from hydrogen
bonding.
Explain the processes by which polymers are assembled and disassembled.
Describe the structures and functions of simple and complex carbohydrates.
Describe the structures of three kinds of lipids and explain their functions.
List the main functions of proteins and describe the structures of amino acids and
proteins.
Compare and contrast the structures of DNA and RNA and their component
nucleotides.
Identify how common techniques of microscopy and biochemistry are used in cell
biology.
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Compare and contrast (1) prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and (2) animal and
plant cells.
Describe the structure of the nucleus, chromosomes, and ribosomes, and explain
their functions.
Identify the parts of the endomembrane system and describe their roles in the cell.
Compare and contrast the structures and functions of mitochondria and
chloroplasts.
Describe the subunits and structures of the cytoskeleton.
Compare and contrast (1) the extracellular components of plant and animal cells
and (2) the cell junctions of plant and animal cells.
Explain the fluid mosaic model, describing the components of the membrane.
Discuss how membrane structure results in selective permeability.
Use examples to demonstrate the processes of diffusion, osmosis, and facilitated
diffusion.
Describe the process of active transport.
Identify the mechanisms a cell uses to transport materials across the membrane in
bulk.
Describe how external signals are converted to responses within cells.
Identify the first two laws of thermodynamics and explain how they relate to
biological systems.
Explain what is meant by G (free energy) and relate it to the following:
spontaneous reactions, capacity to do work, stability, and exergonic and
endergonic reactions.
Use examples to illustrate the coupling of ATP hydrolysis to endergonic
reactions.
Explain how enzymes speed up metabolic reactions.
Describe how regulation of enzyme activity helps control metabolism.
Explain how the redox reactions of catabolic pathways yield energy by oxidizing
organic fuels.
Trace the pathway of glucose oxidation during glycolysis.
Describe the oxidation of pyruvate and the process by which further oxidation
occurs in the citric acid cycle.
Identify the steps of oxidative phosphorylation and account for the total ATP
produced per glucose molecule during cellular respiration.
Name two types of fermentation and explain how they result in ATP production.
Use examples to illustrate the interactions of glycolysis and the citric acid cycle
with other metabolic pathways.
Specify where photosynthesis occurs and describe, in general, how it converts
light energy into chemical energy.
Trace the sequence of events during the light reactions that convert solar energy
to chemical energy.
Explain how the Calvin cycle uses chemical energy to reduce CO2 to sugar, and
identify alternative mechanisms of carbon fixation that have evolved in hot, arid
climates.
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Explain how mitosis results in genetically identical cells, using the terms
chromosome, chromatid, and chromatin.
Describe the events of interphase and the M phase.
Identify three checkpoints that control the cell cycle and explain how they
operate.
Explain the alternation of fertilization and meiosis in different types of sexual life
cycles, using the terms haploid, diploid and zygote.
Compare and contrast asexual and sexual reproduction with respect to inheritance
of chromosomes by offspring.
Explain the alternation of fertilization and meiosis in different types of sexual life
cycles, using the terms haploid, diploid and zygote.
Describe the stages of meiosis, explaining how the process reduces the number of
chromosome sets.
Identify the ways in which sexual life cycles generate genetic variation that
contributes to evolution.
Explain Mendel's two laws of inheritance.
Describe the laws of probability and explain how they can be used to solve
complex genetics problems.
Use examples to show how genetic inheritance patterns can be affected by
complete dominance, incomplete dominance, codominance, multiple alleles,
pleiotropy, epistasis, and polygenic inheritance.
Explain what a pedigree is and use examples to show how human traits follow
Mendelian patterns of inheritance.
Discuss Mendel's laws of inheritance in relation to the behavior of chromosomes
during meiosis and fertilization, and explain Morgan's experiments with red- and
white-eyed fruit flies.
Describe the inheritance patterns displayed by sex-linked genes and the effects of
X inactivation in female mammals.
Explain how linkage of genes and crossing over affect inheritance.
List different types of alterations to chromosome number and structure, and
explain how they can cause genetic disorders.
Describe the structure of DNA and evidence that it is the genetic material.
Explain how the Meselson-Stahl experiment contributed to our understanding of
DNA replication, and describe this process.
Distinguish among the levels of chromatin packing in a eukaryotic chromosome.
Describe DNA cloning and the polymerase chain reaction.
Describe evidence that helped us understand the process of gene expression, and
describe the process.
Explain transcription, including a description of important molecules involved in
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Trace the steps involved in eukaryotic RNA processing.
List the cellular components and molecules involved in translation, and describe
the process.
Identify different types of mutations and how they can affect protein structure and
function.
Compare and contrast gene expression in the three domains, and discuss the
concept of a gene.
Explain how the trp and lac operons function.
Describe the stages of eukaryotic gene expression and the regulation that can
occur at each stage.
Define ''noncoding RNA'' and explain how they participate in regulating gene
expression.
Identify techniques that allow us to study the expression of a gene.
EVALUATION OF REQUIRED COURSE MEASURES/ARTIFACTS
Department of Natural Sciences Grading Policy: Your grade for this course will be determined
solely on the basis of the criteria outlined in this syllabus. Students will not be allowed to
substitute other activities (reports, homework, etc.) to count in place of any of the stated criteria.
(This means there will be NO extra credit offered.) Also, since the tests/exams given in this
course are designed to measure the extent to which you have mastered course materials, students
should not expect there to be any “curving” of grades. It is the policy of the Department of
Natural Sciences to use the below grading scale.
GRADING:
Portion of Course
Percentage of Final Grade
Lecture
75%
**The exam/quiz schedule is decided on by the instructor; please see the instructor’s
information for the exam schedule
Lab Content
25%
**This will include lab assignments, lab reports and lab exams
GRADING SYSTEM:
Course Average
90-100
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60-69
Less than 60
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Letter Grade
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F
Grades earned in courses impact academic progression and financial aid status. Before
withdrawing from a course, be sure to talk with your instructor and financial aid counselor about
the implications of that course of action. Ds, Fs, Ws, WFs and Is also negatively impact
academic progression and financial aid status.
For Hybrid Students Only:
Testing Procedure: Exams will consist of multiple-choice, true-false & short answer
questions. Lecture exams will be given in the Testing Center and will be available for
you to take on any campus. It is your responsibility to take the exams in a timely manner.
Mandatory DUE DATES for the semester are posted on the calendar on D2L. You are
expected to arrive at the Testing Center prepared: a pencil for scantron, a picture ID and
know the course & exam number you are taking. All exams and answer sheets are to be
returned to the testing center. An exam or answer sheet that is not returned will result in a
grade of a zero for the student. All tests must be scheduled a minimum of 24 hours in
advance with the testing center using their registration software (link in Wavenet). Any
exam not completed by the due date as indicated on the calendar, will result in a zero for
that exam. Please refer to your Instructors Information sheet for information on when
other assignments and activities will be due. Please see the calendar for the dates.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY/CHEATING:
All forms of academic dishonesty, as outlined in the Student Code in the HGTC catalog, will
NOT be tolerated and will result in disciplinary action. Anyone caught cheating or committing
plagiarism (Defined in the code as: “The appropriation of any other person’s work and the
unacknowledged incorporation of that work in one’s own work offered for credit”) will be given
a grade of a zero for that assignment and reported to the Senior VP of Academic Affairs, in
accordance with the student handbook. A second offense will result in the student being
withdrawn from the course with a “WF” and charges being filed with the Chief Student Services
Officer.
The Student Success and Tutoring Center (SSTC)
The SSTC offers to all students the following free resources:
1. Academic coaches for most subject areas, Writing Center Support, and college success skills
2. On-line student success and academic support resources
a. 24/7 online academic tutoring assistance (access in WaveNet)
b. 24/7 Online Resource Center (ORC)
c. Campus2Campus Virtual Appointments
d. Tips and tricks for college life, studying, and learning
(Facebook: hgtcsstc)
3. Other student resources and academic support
a. Resource guides to improve college success skills
b. Science models & other supplemental tools and textbooks
c. Workshops on college success skills and citation styles
d. Study Skills, Test Anxiety, Time Management, etc.
e. APA, MLA, and Preventing Plagiarism
f. Check the EVENTS calendar in WaveNet for more information!
Visit the SSTC website: www.hgtc.edu/sstc and visit the student services tab in your WaveNet account to
schedule appointments using TutorTrac. For more information, call: SSTC Conway, 349-7872; SSTC
Grand Strand, 477-2113; and SSTC Georgetown, 520-1455. Room locations and Live Chat is available
on the SSTC website.
Student Information Center: WaveNet Central (WNC)
WNC offers to all students the following free resources:
1. Getting around HGTC: General information and guidance for enrollment!
2. Use the Online Resource Center (ORC) for COMPASS support, technology education, and
online tools
3. Drop-in technology support or scheduled training in the Center or in class
4. In-person workshops and online tutorials are available for:
1. D2L & WaveNet,
2. Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint and Excel,
3. Basic Computer Skills,
4. Budgeting your Money, and more.
5. Check the EVENTS calendar or the WNC Online Resource
Center for more information!
5. Additional services such as reviewing Degree Works, scheduling
tutoring, or scheduling testing center appointments, scanning and
uploading documents, etc.
Visit the WNC website: www.hgtc.edu/wavenetcentral. Live Chat and Center locations are posted on the
website. Or please call one of the following locations: WNC Conway, 349-5182; WNC Grand Strand,
477-2076; and WNC Georgetown, 520-1473. View tips and tricks for college life, personal development
and technology learning on their Facebook page (Facebook: hgtcwnc).