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Week 1
Sep 1
2
3
Introduction to Biology
AP & Intro to Chemistry
No school
Teacher
workday
Welcome to AP What is the
Bio! 2008-2009 scientific method,
and how will you
Intro to Cornel be using it in our
class
Notes
Chap 1, 2
Book pick-up
4
FRIDAY
5
Chap 2: Question &
Notes
Elements and
Compounds
Begin note taking Atoms & Molecules
on Chapt 1 IntroExploring Life on H.W.
its many levels
Tenets,
Expectations,
norms, grading
Read Chap 3-5
policy and intro What should you before next
expect from this Wednesday
to online
grading system course-Part II?
You will be tested
several times a
What should
you expect from week mini-test
and unit
this course?
HW
Read Chap 1 & 2
Mini-Test
tomorrow or AP
test (review of
what you know)
Week 2
8
Chemistry of life
Chap 3 Question
& Notes
Unit 1
Chap cont. 2-5
9
10
Mini-Test Chap 2 Chap 5
&3
Question &
Notes
Properties of H2O Chap 4 Question
& Notes
Principles of
Polymers Carbs
Dissociation of
H2O molecules
The importance serve as fuel &
building
of Carbon
material,
Functional
Lipids diverse
Groups
group of
hydrophobic
molecules,
Proteins have
many structures
and functions
11
12
Chap 4 Mini-Test Unit Test # 1
Covers
Review of Chapt
2-5
Chap 2-5 50 ques,
1 short answer
question
Unit Test
tomorrow
H.W.
H.W.
Read chap 6-8
Unit Test
tomorrow
Nucleic Acids
store transmit
hereditary info.
Week 3
15
Cells
 Cellular
Respiration
 Photosynthesis
Chap 6-7
17
18 Lab Demo:
Chap 6 Question Chap 6
& Notes
Question &
Notes
Study cells,
nucleus,
Cytoskeleton,
ribosomes,
cell surfaces
endomembrane and junctions
system,
membranous
system
Chap 6 MiniTest
Catalysis
Enzyme Lab
Chap 7 Cont.
“Toothpickase”
Week 4
22
23
24
25
Cells Continued
Chap 7 MiniTest
Chap 8 cont.
Review of
Chap 6-8
Chap 8
Question &
Chap 8 Question Notes
& Notes
The Control of
Metabolism,
metabolism
energy and life
Unit Test Chapt Lab: Osmosis
6-8 & 2 short
Lab AP #1
answer
questions
H.W.
Lab Demo: Catalysis
Enzyme Lab
“Toothpickase”
16
Chap 7
Question &
Notes
Membrane
structure
Lab: Enzyme
Catalase Lab
AP #2
19
Traffic across
membranes
H.W.
Lab #2 Due
next Friday
Lab: Enzyme Catalase
Lab AP #2
Lab: Osmosis Lab AP
#1
26
HW
Lab #1 Due
next Friday
Unit test
tomorrow
Enzymes are
catalytic
proteins
Week 5
29
30
Oct 1
Cell Respiration
Review of Lab
Osmosis
Chap 9 cont.
Chap 9 Mini- Continue Lab
Test
#5
Photosynthesis
Lab #4
Cellular
Respiration
Lab #5 (Setup)
Due on Friday
Lab# 5 & 4
Lab: Cellular Respiration
Lab #5
Chap 9
Lab: Photosynthesis Lab Principles of
#4
energy harvest
Chap 9-10
Process of
cellular
Related
metabolic
processes
2
Chap 10 Notes
& Question
Process that
feeds the
biosphere
Pathways of
3
respiration
photosynthesis
Week 6
6
7
8
Photosynthesis & Cell
Reproduction
Chap 10 MiniTest
Chap 11 MiniTest
Chap 12 Mini- Finish Mitosis & Unit Test on Chap
Test
Meiosis Lab #3 9-12
Lab Mitosis & Meiosis
Lab #3
Chap 11 Notes & Chap 12 Notes
Questions
& Questions
Chap 9-12
Key roles of cell
division
Mitotic cell
cycle
Regulation of
cell cycle
Mitosis &
Meiosis Lab
#3 Set-up
9
10
Due Next
Reading Chap 13Tuesday Lab #3 21 by Nov
30th
H.W.
Read Chap 13 &
14
Week 7
13
Genetics
Chap 13 Notes & Chap 13 miniQuestions
test
(Molecular & Heredity)
Labs:



Molecular(Lab 6)
Genetics (Lab 7)
Pop Gen (Lab 8)
Chap 13-15
14
Basis of
Heredity
Chap 14 Notes
& Questions
Role of
metabolic
processes
Gregory
Mendel
Origins of
Genetic
variation
Mendelian
genetics
Mendelian
inheritance in
humans
15
16
Chap 14 mini- Lab 7
test
Genetics of
Organisms
Chap 15
H.W.
Relating
Mendelian
Lab 7 is Due
inheritance to Next
the behavior Thursday
of
chromosomes
17
Unit Exam Chap
13-15
Sex
chromosomes
Errors and
exceptions in
chromosomal
inheritance
Week 8
20
Genetics
Chap 16 Notes & Chap 16 Notes Chap 17 Notes
Questions
& Questions
& Questions
(Cont.)
DNA as genetic
material
DNA
replication and
repair
(Molecular & Heredity)
Chap 16 & 17
21
22
23
24
Chap 17 Notes & Test Chap 16 & 17
Questions
(cont.)
H.W.
Review of Chap Read Chap 18, 19
16 & 17
& 20
Week 9
27
Genetics
Chap 18 Notes & Mini-Test Chap Chap 19 Notes
Questions
18
& Questions
(cont.)
Genetics of
Chap 19 Notes
viruses
& Questions
Genome
organization
Genetics of
The structure of at the DNA
level
Bacteria
Eukaryotic
chromatin
Begin Chap 20
The Control of Notes &
gene expression Questions
(Molecular & Heredity)
Chap 18-20
28
29
30
31
Mini-Test Chap
19
Chap 20 Notes
& Questions
(Cont.)
Unit Exam Chap
18-20
End of Term 3
DNA analysis
and genomics
Practical
applications of
DNA technology
DNA cloning
Week 10
Nov 3
4
5
6
Evolution
Lab 6
Chap 21 Notes
& Questions
Mini-test
Chap 21
Mini-Test Chap Mini-Test Chap
22
23
Lab 6 Molecular Biology
Molecular
Biology
From Single
cell to multicellular
organism
Chap 22 Notes Chap 23 notes & Chap 24 Notes &
& questions
Questions
Questions
Chap 21-24
Due next
Monday
Historical
context for
Differential
evolutionary
gene expression theory
Genetic and
Darwinian
cellular
revolution
mechanisms of
pattern
formation
Population
Genetics
Lab 8:
Population
Genetics
7
What is a species?
Modes of
speciation
Adaptive
radiation
No Lab is due in
your books
Speciation to
macroevolution
Week 11
10
Evolution Cont.
Chap 25, 26, 34
(Chap 27-29, 31-33 will
be discussed)
11
12
13
14
Mini-Test Chap Holiday-No
24
school
Chap 25 & 26
Cont.
Chap 27 Notes
& Questions
Chap 27 MiniTest
Chap 25 & 26
Phylogenies
based on
common
ancestries
What is an
animal?
Chap 28 Notes &
Questions
Phylogenies
based on
common
ancestries
Phylogenetic
systematic
Phylogenetic
systematic
Origin of life
Origin of life
History of life
History of life
Major lineages
of life
The origins of
animal diversity
Major lineages
of life
Week 12
17
18
19
20
21
Diversity
Chap 28 MiniTest
Chap 29 MiniTest
Chap 31 Mini- Chap 32 Mini- Unit Test on
Test
Test
Evolution
Chap 28, 29, 31-33
Chap 29 Notes & Chap 31 Notes
Questions
& Questions
Chap 32 Notes Chap 33 Notes
& Questions
& Questions
Chap 31-33
Have a good
thanksgiving
break!!!!
Week 13
Dec 1
2
3
4
5
Plant Evolution,
Structure & Function
Welcome back!
Chap 30 Minitest
Chapt 35
Mini-test
Chap 36 MiniTest
Chap 37 Mini-test
Chap 35 Notes
& Questions
Chap 36 Notes Chap 37 Notes
& Questions
& Questions
Chap 30, 35-39
Chap 30 Notes
& Questions
Key Terrestrial
adaptations
Plant Body
Overview of
transport
Gymnosperms Process of plant mechanisms
growth and
development
Absorption of
Angiosperms
water and
Plants & human Mechanisms of minerals by
roots
plant growth
welfare
and
development
Transport of
xylem sap
Chap 38 Notes &
Questions
Sexual
reproduction
Nutritional
requirements of
plants
Asexual
reproduction
The role of soil
in plant
Plant
nutrition
biotechnology
Special case of
nitrogen as a
plant nutrient
Control of
transpiration
Nutritional
adaptations:
symbiosis of
Translocation plant and soil
of phloem sap microbes
Nutritional
adaptations:
parasitism and
predation by
plants
Week 14
8
Plant Evolution,
Structure & Function
(cont.)
Chap 38 minitest
Chap 39
Lab: Transpiration (Lab
9)
Animal Structure &
Function
Chap 40-42
Lab #10 Circulatory
Systems
9
10
11
Lab 9
Chap 40 Notes Chap 40-41
Transcription & Questions & Test
Chap 41 Notes
& Questions
Chap 39 Notes & Due Next
Chap 42 Notes
Questions
& Questions
Functional
Friday
animal anatomy Circulation in
Signal
transduction &
animals
Body plans and
responses
the external
Gas exchange in
environment
Plant responses
animals
to hormones,
Intro to
bioenergetics of
light and
animals
environmental
stimuli other
Regulating the
than light
internal
Plant Defense:
Responses to
herbivores and
pathogens
environment
Nutritional
requirements of
animals
Overview of food
processing
Mammalian
digestive system
Evolutionary
adaptations of
vertebrate
digestive system
12
Lab #10
Circulatory
System
Due Next
Friday
Week 15
15
16
17
Animal Structure &
Function (cont.)
Chap 42 MiniTest
Chap 44 MiniTest
Chap 44-49
Chap 44 notes & Chap 45 Notes
questions
& Questions
Chap 45 Mini- Catch up day
Test
Missing Chapter
or Labs in class
Chap 46 Notes
& Questions
H.W.
Overview of
osmoregualation
Overview of
the nervous
system
Water balance
and waste
disposal
Unit Test Chap
44-46
Happy Winter
Break!!!!
Labs 9 & 10 are
due tomorrow
Mammalian
reproduction
Week 16
Jan 5
Animal Structure &
Function (cont.)
Chap 47 Notes & Chap 47 MiniQuestions
Test
Lab 11 Animal Behavior
19
Mechanisms
of sexual
reproduction
Excretory
systems
Chap 47-49
18
6
Chap 48 Notes
& Questions
Overview of the
nervous system
Nature of nerve
system
Vertebrate
nervous system
7
8
9
Chap 48 Mini- Lab 11 Animal Unit Test Chap
Test
Behavior
47-49
Chap 49 Notes Due Next
& Questions
Thursday
Week 17
12
13
14
Ecology
Chap 50 Notes
& Questions
Chap 50 MiniTest
Chap 51 Mini- Chap 52 MiniTest
Test
Unit Test Chap
50-53
The scope of
ecology
Chap 51 Notes
& Questions
Chap 52 Notes Chap 53 Notes
& Questions
& Questions
H.W.
The final Chapters 50-53
15
16
Read Chap 54 &
Characteristics Interspecific
55 (You have
of populations interactions and completed the
community
entire Biology AP
structure
book!)
Population
Congratulations!!!
growth
Beiogeographi
factors affect
Population
community
limiting
biodiversity
factors
Interactions btw
organisms & the
environment
affect the dist.
Of species
Aquatic &
Terrestrial
biomes
Human
Population
Growth
H.W.
Lab 11 Due
Tomorrow
Week 18
19
20
21
Ecology
No School
Lab 12
Dissolved
Oxygen
Chap 54 Notes Chap 54 Mini& Questions
Test
Due Next
Tuesday
Ecosystems,
energy, &
matter
Primary
production in
ecosystems
The cycling of
chemical
elements in
ecosystems
Human
Impact on
Ecosystems
22
Chap 55 Notes
& Questions
23
Final Unit Test
Chap 54 & 55
and the
biosphere
Week 19
26
Review week
27
Review Week
28
Review Week
29
Review Week
AP Finals
Lab 12 Dissolved Oxygen H.W.
Lab 12 Dissolved
is due
Oxygen lab due
tomorrow
Last Lab!!!!
We made it!!!!!
See you in the
Spring for
preparation for
the AP Biology
Test
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