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Bi
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Last updated August 12, 2000
Week of August 21
assignments:
Read Chapters 1, 2,&
3; Abstracts assigned; Lecture: Introduction & review chemistry
Lab:
Safety & equipment: TEST!
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Week of August 28
assignments:
Read chapters 4 &
5; Lecture: Water's Properties/Importance of carbon & functional
groups
Lab:
Enzyme Catalysis
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Week of September 4
assignments:
Read chapter 7; Lecture:
lipids, proteins & nucleic acids;
TEST over unit 1 - Chemistry &
Biochemistry (chapters 1-5)
Lab:
Organic Models; Prelab1-Osmosis & Diffusion; Start wildflower
collection
Week of September 11
assignments: 
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Read chapter 8;
Lecture Cells & movement across membranes
Lab
1:
Osmosis & Diffusion; Lab 2 write up due
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Week of September 18
assignments:
Interims !
Read Chapter
11; ABSTRACT due! ; Lecture: Cell communication
Lab:
Complete lab 1 & work on write up
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Week of September 25
assignments:
Read Chapter 12;
Lecture cell cycle, mitosis, & meiosis
Lab
1:
WRITE UP due!!; lab on microscopy
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Week of October 2
assignments:
Read chapter 13;
Review unit II on cells; UNIT TEST ON - CELLS!! (chapters 7, 8, 11,
12, 13)
Lab:
Water Determination in a carrot; Identify wildflowers
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Week of October 9
assignments:
Read chapters 6 &
9; Lecture: Metabolism & cellular respiration
Lab4:
Plant pigments; WATER IN CARROT write up
due!!
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Week of October 16 assignments:
Read chapters 10 &
14; ABSTRACT due; Lecture: Photosynthesis; Unit
TEST over Cellular Energetics!!
(chapters 6, 9, & 10)
Lab
5:
Cellular Respiration; Lab 4 write up due!
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Week of October 23
assignments: 
Begin reading Cry of
the Kalahari; video; Read chapter 15;
Lecture: Mendelian
genetics; Homework: Genetic Crosses
Lab
3:
Mitosis & Meiosis; Lab 5 write up due!
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Week of October 30
assignments:
Parent-Teacher
Conference!
Video: Gregor
Mendel; CRY quiz #1
Lab
3:
Results only due!!
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Week of November 6
assignments:
Genetics
problems; CRY quiz #2; Video:
Eternal Enemies
Lab
6:
Molecular Biology; Spool DNA
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Week of November 13
assignments:
Lecture: Chromosomes
& inheritance; UNIT TEST on Heredity!!
(chapters 14 & 15)
Lab
6:
Transformation; Set up dermestids & bullfrog
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Week of November 20
assignments:
Interims !
Read chapter
16; CRY quiz# 3; Lecture: DNA & its
Structure; Replication & repair
Lab:
Bioremediation - part 1; Lab 6 write up due!
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Week of November 27
assignments:
Read chapters 17 &
18; Lecture: protein Synthesis, mutations, genetics of viruses
Lab:
Bioremediation - parts 2 & 3; worksheet
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Week of December 4
assignments: 
CRY of the Kalahari
paper due!!! ; Read chapters 19 & 20; Lecture: genetics of
bacteria, eukaryotic genomes, DNA cloning
Lab:
Bioremediation worksheet due; work on lab write up
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Week of December 11
assignments:
Read chapter
21; Lecture: DNA technology, gene expression: UNIT TEST
ON Molecular Genetics !! (chapters16-21)
Lab:
Bioremediation lab report due!; review for lab semester test
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Semester tests Friday 12/15, Monday12/18, & Tuesday 12/19
Merry
Christmas!