Monday, August 31, 2009

August 31st - In class and homework

I collected your evaluations of the 3 web sites we did in class Friday. In addition, we briefly looked at the levels of organizations in life shown in our textbook pages 4 & 5; as well as the chart on page 27 (Eleven themes that unify Biology). At this point, we talked about the expectations about the basics of chemistry (background necessary for this class), and I handed out Learning objectives, as well as a number of review questions to test your mastery of these basics. The answers will be shown below. The homework is to complete these questions (if necessary), and to brush up on whatever aspects of chemistry that you are not comfortable with.

Answers to Chemistry questions
Part A -1-b, 2-e, 3-d, 4-d, 5-b, 6-b, 7-a, 8-d, 9-a, 10-b, 11-c
Part B - 1-B, 2-A, 3-B, 4-C, 5-A, 6-A, 7-D, 8-C, 9-D, 10-B
Part C - 1-B, 2-B, 3-A, 4-C, 5-B, 6-E, 7-C, 8-B, 9-C, 10-D
Part D - 1-D, 2-A, 3-B, 4-B, 5-C, 6-b, 7-B, 8-A, 9-B, 10-B
Part E - 1-D, 2-D, 3-E, 4-B, 5-A, 6-B, 7-C, 8-A, 9-E, 10-E, 11-E, 12 - B, 13-C, 14- E, 15-A, 16-B, 17-E, 18-A

Friday, August 28, 2009

August 28th Class activities and Homework

Today in class we looked over a number of Biology Animations from the following web site: http://nhscience.lonestar.edu/biol/bio1int.htm . Our in class assignment was to briefly watch a number of sites found here, and then to evaluate 3 of them. These sites have to do with material we will cover for at least the 1st 9 weeks of class Our homework is to finish this assignment (if necessary).

Thursday, August 27, 2009

August 27th - Activities in Class and Homework

In class today, we completed a brief investigation brainstorming about the relationship between catalase (found in chicken liver) and hydrogen peroxide. We came up with a hypothesis addressing conditions necessary for optimal catalase activity. We finished the class with a 10 question pretest on Chapter 1 material, and briefly going over the answers. Our homework is to read sections 1.4 (pgs. 15 - 19) and 1.6 (pgs. 26 & 27).

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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