AP BiLogy Assignments

Lab

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!

Week of August 28 assignments:
Read chapters 4 & 5;  Lecture: Water's Properties/Importance of carbon & functional groups
Lab: Enzyme Catalysis

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:   
Read chapter 8;  Lecture Cells & movement across membranesLab 1: Osmosis & Diffusion;  Lab 2 write up due

Week of September 18 assignments:     Interims !
SAT - 9 TESTING!!!
Read Chapter 11;   ABSTRACT due! ;  Lecture: Cell communication
Lab: Complete lab 1 & work on write up

Week of September 25 assignments:
Read Chapter 12;  Lecture cell cycle, mitosis, & meiosis
Lab 1: WRITE UP due!!;  lab on microscopy

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 

Week of October 9 assignments:
WILDFLOWER COLLECTIONS DUE!!!
Read chapters 6 & 9;  Lecture: Metabolism & cellular respiration
Lab4:  Plant pigments;  WATER IN CARROT write up
due!!

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!

End of First Nine Weeks

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!

Week of October 30 assignments:      Parent-Teacher Conference!
Video: Gregor Mendel;  CRY quiz #1 
Lab 3: Results only due!!

Week of November 6 assignments:
Genetics problems; CRY quiz #2; Video: Eternal Enemies
Lab 6: Molecular Biology;  Spool DNA

Week of November 13 assignments:
Lecture: Chromosomes & inheritance; UNIT TEST on Heredity!!   (chapters 14 & 15)
Lab 6:  Transformation;  Set up dermestids & bullfrog

Week of November 20 assignments:      Happy Turkey Day!

  Interims !

Read chapter 16;   CRY quiz# 3; Lecture: DNA & its Structure; Replication & repair
Lab: Bioremediation - part 1; Lab 6 write up due!

Week of November 27 assignments:
Read chapters 17 & 18; Lecture: protein Synthesis, mutations, genetics of viruses
Lab: Bioremediation - parts 2 & 3;  worksheet

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

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

Semester tests Friday 12/15, Monday12/18, & Tuesday 12/19

End of First Semester

 Merry Christmas!