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Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TOTAL Topic Scientific Method Enzymes Microscopes/Cells Diffusion/Osmosis Photosynthesis Cell Division Genetics Molecular Biology Evolution* 250 pts. TOTAL Pre-Lab None 10 pts. 10 pts 10 pts 10 pts 10 pts 10 pts 10 pts 10 pts 40 pts. In-Lab 15 pts. 15 pts. 15 pts. 15 pts. 15 pts. 15 pts. 15 pts. 15 pts. 15 pts. 135 pts. Quiz None Over week 1 (5 pts.) Over week 2 (10 pts.) Over week 3 (10 pts.) Over week 4 (10 pts.) Over week 5 (10 pts.) Over week 6 (10 pts.) Over week 7 (10 pts.) Over week 8 (10 pts.) 75 pts. Lab 1 Topic Scientific Method Learning goals 1. Understand the scientific method 2. Understand differences between dependent, independent & controlled variables 3. Distinguish controlled variables from control condition 4. Construct and interpret graph 2 Enzymes 3 Microscopes and Cells 1. Understand how a microscope works 2. know the relationship between magnification and resolution 3. know the cell organelles visible in a light microscope 4. distinguish protozoan, plant and animal cells 4 Diffusion and Osmosis 1. Understand solute, solvent, diffusion, osmosis, semipermeable membrane, osmotic pressure, and tonicity 2. understand that diffusion, osmosis, osmotic pressure, and tonicity are driven by and illustrate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics 3. understand the graph of the “potato punch” experiment 1. Understand the relationships between substrate, product, enzyme, competitive inhibitor and noncompetitive inhibitor 2. Understand that every unique enzyme works best under different conditions and that the optimal conditions are related to the role of the enzyme in the organism Assessment 1. State a hypothesis, a prediction and design an experiment when given an observation or question 2. Given a set of variables, separate them into dependent, independent & controlled variables 3. Define and give examples of controlled variables and control conditions 4. Given a data set, construct a data table, construct a graph, plot the data & describe the relationship shown by the graph 1. Define, diagram the interactions between, give examples from the lab, and identify each chemical used in the lab as substrate, product, enzyme, substrate, product, enzyme, competitive inhibitor and noncompetitive inhibitor 2. Describe the experiment and the lab results that distinguish a competitive from a noncompetitive inhibitor 3. Diagram and describe the lab results that show that different enzymes work best under different conditions 1. Label the parts of the microscope in a diagram or a photograph and state the function of each part 2. describe the changes in the image as the magnification is changed 3. accurately draw and label the drawing, a diagram or a photograph of any of the cells used in this lab, including the cell organelles 4. state the function of each organelle 5. compare and contrast protozoan, plant and animal cells 1. Define solute, solvent, diffusion, osmosis, semipermeable membrane, osmotic pressure, and tonicity and draw a diagram illustrating each of these 2. state the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics 3. describe and draw a diagram showing how diffusion, osmosis, osmotic pressure, and tonicity illustrate the 2 nd Law of Thermodynamics 4. understand how cellular responses to media of different tonicity indicate the solute concentration of the cell’s cytoplasm 5 Photosynthesis 1. Understand the basis for chromatography 2. Understand the relationship between a molecule’s absorption spectrum and the energy that it takes in and transmit 3. Understand the spectrophotometer and the manometer 4. know the controlled, dependent and independent variables and the control condition in the manometer experiment 5. understand the graph of the manometer experiment 6. understand the basis of the manometer experiment and its relevance to the pigment absorption spectra and to photosynthesis 6 Cell Division 7 Genetics 1. Know the names of the parts of the cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis 2. know the events in sequence that occur during each parts of the cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis 3. understand the differences between the processes and the products of mitosis and meiosis 4. understand genotype, phenotype, gene, allele 5. know the role of mitosis and of meiosis in the organism and in inheritance 1. Understand gene, dominant and recessive alleles, genotype, phenotype, incomplete dominance 2. understand segregation, independent assortment and test cross 4. accurately graph the “potato punch” results 5. describe the “potato punch” experiment and the results that indicate the solute concentration of the cell’s cytoplasm 1. Predict the relative position of pigments when chromatographed using a poar or a nonpolar solvent 2. when given a spectrum, predict the wavelengths or colors that will be tranmitted and absorbed 3. diagram each instrument, describe how it operates and what it can be use to measure 4. diagram the manometer apparatus and label each of the variables and the control condition 5. predict the results of the manometer experiment, describe the results your lab obtained, discuss any differences from your prediction and state what this study shows about the process of photosynthesis 6. accurately graph the results of a perfect manometer experiment and your lab’s results; derive the rate of photosynthesis from this graph 7. Predict the outcome of the manometer experiment if the Elodea is dead, if the room lights are left on, if there was no tin foil covered tube, and if the manometer had a leak 1. Diagram, label and state the events in each part of the cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis 2. given a diagram or photograph of a cell, state the phase of the cell cycle, mitosis or meiosis of the cell and the features of the cell the show this 3. Given the genotype of a daughter cell, diagram how it was produced by mitosis or meiosis 1. Define each of these terms and state the relationship between any set of them 2. given the results of a cross, state a hypothesis that might explain the results, use this hypothesis to construct a 3. understand sex linkage and unlinked and linked genes 4. understand Chi-square analysis 8 Molecular Biology and the Control of Gene Expression 9 Evolution of Genes, Alleles and Proteins 1. Understand the relationships between replication, transcription, translation 2. Understand the relationships between DNA, origin of replication, helicase, DNA polymerase, primase, transcript, promoter, RNA polymerase, terminator, mRNA, operator, transcription factor, repressor, inducer, codon, anticodon, tRNA, ribosome, start and stop codons, protein 1. Understand the Hardy-Weinberg Theorem 2. understand allele fixation and extinction 3. understand bottleneck, founder effect, industrial melanism and sickle cell anemia 3. understand the use of isozymes to analyze population heterozygosity and the importance of population heterozygosity in analyzing evolution Punnett Square, state the results predicted if this Punnett Square is correct and use Chi-square analysis to determine if this prediction fits the results of the cross 3. use the analysis in #2 to determine if the results you were provided demonstrate dominance, recessiveness, incomplete dominance, linkage, sex linkage 1. Define and diagram each of these processes 2. Define each of these terms including the specific role of each in replication, transcription, translation and the control of gene action 3. Label diagrams of replication, transcription, translation 4. State the results of mutations in promoter terminator, operator, transcription factor, repressor or inducer 1. State the Hardy-Weinberg Theorem, what it predicts, its five important conditions and its utility 2. define and recognize allele fixation and extinction 3. Describe bottleneck, founder effect, industrial melanism and sickle cell anemia, and demonstrate the analysis of each by application of the Hardy-Weinberg Theorem 4. Define and label on diagrams of isozyme gels: zones of activity, isozyme, allozymes, gel patterns of monomeric, dimeric, trimeric, monomorphic and polymorphic proteins 5. Describe the relationship between population heterozygosity, variation, natural selection and evolution