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Mr. Detering's web site
Biology 1
Administrative info: [Note: Science help day for 2010-11 is: TUESDAY]
Biology 1 - Course Expectations
General procedures and expectations - signature copy
Assignment format
Attendance and tardiness
Detention policy
Course syllabus: Biology 1 - Honors Level - 2009-2010
Biology 1 - Foundation Level - 2009-2010
Grading policy
Grading metric
Grade scale
Lab report format
Lab drawing rubric
Safety contract
Study skills
Text book - Prentice Hall Biology ("PH Biology") or Biology Dynamics of Life ("BDL")
supplemented with Addison and Wesley Biology (the "zebra book")
What is Biology?
Areas of Biology
Characteristics of livings things, levels of organization, themes in Biology
Vocabulary for Bio Intro unit
Scientific method
Hydra
Ecology / Environmental science / the Biosphere
Energy transfer in the ecosystem - ecosystem dynamics
Trophic levels (producers, consumers, decomposers)
Food chains & food webs
Biomass, energy & the ecological pyramid
Carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, oxygen cycle, water cycle
Biosphere
Ecology
Climate
Symbiotic relationships
Examples of mutualism: mycorrhizae fungi, lichen, how fungi obtain food
Soil
Ecological succession
Biomes
Terrestrial, marine, freshwater, rain forest
Inorganic chemistry
(Phys. & chem. properties & changes, phases of matter, periodic table, metal, nonmetal, metalloids, expanded periodic table)
Matter and atomic structure
Bohr and electron cloud models
Electron configuration: rules and sublevel order
Chemical bonds and reactions
Properties of water - polarity, adhesion, cohesion, capillary action, surface tension
Solutions, acids, bases, salts, pH, electrolytes
Nutrient cycles - cycles of the elements in the ecosystem - ecosystem dynamics
carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle (summary, notes), oxygen cycle, water cycle (summary, notes)
Biochemistry - the chemical basis of life
- carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, enzymatic action, nucleic acids
Energy transfer at the cellular level
Photosynthesis
Cellular respiration
Eco-column project
Description, due dates
Documents - plant record, questions, vocabulary,
drawings - plant A drawings, plant B drawings; matter and energy flow diagram
The Cell Cell project - requirements
Cell theory and history
Cell structure and function - notes on the cell
Introduction to the cell and cell membrane
Animation and overview of the cell structure and function (on YouTube)
Nucleus
Organelles
Protoplasm / cytoplasm
Cell shape - microtubules and microfilaments
Organelles of eukaryotes
Animations
Harvard cell animation on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mszlckmc4Hw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Cellular transports - how ions and other particles move through cell membranes
Passive transports - diffusion, osmosis, facilitated diffusion
Active transports and bulk transports - endo and exocytosis
Notes: Physiology examples of cellular biology functions at work
Cellular reproduction - Mitosis
Cell cycle
Mitosis and cytokinesis - cellular reproduction
Control of the cell cycle - (cdc2 kinase, cdc2-cyclin complex = MPF, APC)
Cancer (also see below)
Meiosis and sexual reproduction
Molecular genetics - notes on genetics
Central dogma of genetics
DNA replication
Transcription and RNA
Translation and the genetic code
Genetic code
Control of gene expression
Genetic engineering - see Applied genetics - below
Cytogenetics - Genes and chromosomes
Chromosome theory of inheritance
Genes on chromosomes
Sex determination in humans
Chromosome mutation
Changes in chromosome number
Fundamentals of genetics - Mendelian genetics, probability, patterns of inheritance
Early concepts and history of genetics
Mendel and his investigations - goals, experiments, hypothesis
Modern genetics and Mendel's Laws - genetic fundamentals
Dihybrid cross
Probability and genetics
Other patterns of heredity
Applied genetics
Controlled breeding
Genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology
Transgenic organisms, vectors, plasmids, restriction enzymes, gene cloning
Change and diversity
History of life
The theory of evolution
Cancer