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IB Biology - Academy Awards Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQKUJ_YAv_TqWLRYU7zWkqk_IRh-cIwC6EBqfjHnaTXhN2rg/viewform?usp=sf_link Please also start the preparation for the unit exam, by reviewing chapters 2.1-2.6, 7.1-7.3, and 8.1. Of course, most of what we have done is on chapter 7 so spend some time and get ready to ask serious questions. Figure out which questions you are still confused about? Go over all of the understandings, skills, and applications. We'll go over these starting tomorrow in preparation for a test on Wednesday and Thursday. Honors Biology - Today we started by talking about how plants can reproduce is a number of ways and then I offered up clones of my succulents from home. If you want one, but didn't get one, let me know and I'll find you some next weekend. Next we quizzed you on your ability to do a simple punnett square for 2 given parents. It's pretty clear you either get or you don't. So far, everyone I've talked to about low grades did not complete their work from last week. Lesson learned! If you do have this work completed, come see me at lunch and we can review and do a make up. Lastly, you completed a self-assessment for your genotype and phenotype. It's really important that you come prepared with this work tomorrow since you will be paired up tomorrow with another person to make a baby! Tuesday IB Biology - Today we took time to slowly walk through the complex processes of protein synthesis. Like last night you should consider reviewing your work so that we can answer last minute questions. If I were you, I would literally walk through the Understandings, Skills, and Applications and quiz yourself. The academy awards have been decided, but I somehow missed out on three of the videos. Please feel free to watch these videos that you haven't seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMwFz4-UbJ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRykqjt7W-M And the last one is a file at the end of this blog post. ...it's too big for me to upload, sorry. Honors Biology - SO today we spent looking at your quizzes. For most of you, you either knew it or you didn't. Regardless we added the sex linked trait of DMD and showed WHY it's a disfunction found nearly always in males. This is a key piece of information. Next we jumped into making a baby with a partner. Your job was to combine the genes and tonight you need to draw your baby. This should have been mostly done in class and don't worry about being an artist. But tonight you need to complete two other things as well: 1) Get your parent Input for your notebook, and 2) I want you to return to your entry on the muscle system and add a good quality picture of the muscular system. You can print this up or draw it, but make it look good. Wednesday IB Biology - FIRST, as a reminder, are you logging your volunteer hours, job shadows, and internships on the medpath website? Please remember if you want to finish our program, you must have : Job Shadow-Completed, and a Senior Exploration (Internship or 1-year hospital volunteering)-approved by Medical Pathway Coordinator, CPR certification recommended, and of course, all of the coursework completed with a C or better. On a separate note, if you want to be recognized by the district pathway, here's what you need to do: https://sites.google.com/guhsd.net/ghdhealthpathways/completer-status The big difference in becoming a gold completer is mostly in having CPR certification. As to tonight, I'd love for you to think about your chemistry from the standpoint of food being integrated into your body. Think of it from the moment you start to chew food to the point where the broken down monomers are reconstructed into new proteins for you body. Imagine a piece of food being chewed, saliva excreted, amylase breaks down any carbs, traveling to the stomach where pepsin starts to break down the proteins, and then to the small intestines where lipase is released, etc. Can you tell the other end of this story? Can you talk about the monomers of the broken down food being incorporated into the cells? What happens next? How does new proteins get created? This should be good practice if you work at it. Don't forget to go through your flashcards too! You should be able to discuss each of those cards in relation to this digestion thought experiment! Your test will start on Friday and finish next week. The last thing I want you to know is that we have worked on biochemistry for 12 weeks and we're almost finished! What we need to do now is push towards our next formal lab report which deals with molecule size and the application of this concepts through the use of chromatography. Tonight I want you to submit to me on a seperate piece of paper, some application of chromatography in real life, industry, or ??? You only need to be able to explain your application in real life and how chromatography works to help us in some way. Oh, and give me a name of someone you would like to work with, or if you would like to work alone, and if there is someone you cannot work with. Honors Biology - First, we're getting ready for the final for this unit. What can we tell from the case study? Next, return to your entry from the beginning of the year that was on the endocrine system and add a good quality picture of this system. You can print this up or draw it, but make it look good Lastly, be sure to get parent input! Thursday IB Biology - Today was...empty. I know it's halloween so have a good time tonight because, theoretically, you are prepared for your test tomorrow. Honors Biology - Today you worked as a genetic counselor on case study #1. Tonight you will have fun. ...please make sure you already have your parent input completed as tomorrow is the last day to submit that. Friday IB Biology - So today you took care of part 1 of your final Protein Synthesis/Nucleic Acid exam. You will take part 2 next week on Monday/Tuesday (depends when I see you). Other than what you already know I would suggest looking at the following website on gel electrophoresis to answer any procedural questions: https://scienceprimer.com/gel-electrophoresis-overview Next week we will start working on your next formal lab! Honors Biology - So today we started by collecting up your parent input. Then we reviewed our case study from yesterday and then you partnered up. I then gave you copies of 2 more case studies and you and your partner did them individually. Then you came together to show each other what you found out, and so that your partner could double check you. Lastly, we checked the results out in class. This weekend, on the empty page near your first case study, I want you to research your own case study. Here are the criteria that you should include on the blank left page next to your first case study. Name of a genetic disorder (that is not one that we have examined): Background Info: What type of problem does the error come from? (mitosis/meiosis/mutation/inheritance/etc.) Is this problem dominant, or recessive, or sex linked? Make a fictional pedigree that is at least 3 generations Make a punnett square to describe the offspring of an afflicted person with someone who is not afflicted. Here's a website of disorders you could use, but be careful as some would be trickier to work with than others. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/genetic-disorders
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