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1/18/11

(F)

1/20/11

(B)

1/24/11

(D)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Introduce Syllabus.

• First day activity -- Of Fingerprints & DNA Fingerprints.

 Finish the fingerprinting that you started in class and identify the patterns.

 Have a good week!

1/26/11

(F; 1:10)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss Fingerprinting patterns.

• Discuss 'Search for Genetic Material'.

 Read pages 1-4 in your textbook and answer questions 1-4 and try answering 6  (on pages 7 & 8) in your binder.

 Have a good week!

1/28/11

(B; Advisee Mtg)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• SNOW DAY!

2/1/11

(D)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Describe the Cell Cycle and its link to cancer.

Here's the webquest that you will complete for today. you can either type the answers or simply hand write them in.

 Have a good day!

2/3/11

(F; Diversity Day 1:10 Assembly)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review Cell Cycle webquest.

• Discuss proto-oncogenes & tumor suppressors.

Read pages 3-6 and from page 8 in the text answer questions 5,7,8,10 and 11 in your binders.

Have a good weekend!

2/7/11

(B)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review DNA structure & discuss DNA replication in linear & circular DNA.

 Study for your QUIZ next class on topics that we have already covered in class ( All of Ch1 except Circular DNA + Cell Cycle worksheet (fingerprints will be done later in much more detail and will not be on this Quiz).

Have a good week!

2/9/11

(D)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• QUIZ.!

• DNA extraction lab.

 Your 'DNA extraction lab report' (typed) is due next class.

2/11/11

(F)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss circular DNA replication.

• Review.

Study for your TEST on ch1 + DNA extraction lab next class.

2/15/11

(B)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• TEST on ch.1

• Compare Mitosis & Meiosis.

Please have your two-three Genbrochure topics ready on an index card when we meet next time.

2/17/11

(D)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Describe Basics of Mendelian Inheritance.

• Start ' Eye Color' case study.

Read pages 9-12 from the text and answer questions 2,3,4 and 6 (from page 15) in your binder.

Have a relaxing Break!

WINTER BREAK!

2/28/11

(F)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss Centromere -- acrocentric, metacentric, sub-metacentric and telocentric chromosomes.

• 'Eye color' case study.

 Read part III of the Case study and answer questions in your binder.

Also review Meiosis by taking notes from the following website.

 Have a good week!

3/2/11

(B; Noon)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• 'Mendelian Laws of Inheritance.

• Linkage webquest.

• http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/androgenetic-alopecia

   

Read these three short articles and write a 1-2 page summary on what you have learnt. This must be typed and will be collected next class. If you are having computer problems, you can hand write the summary but this must be turned in next class.

Have a good week!

3/4/11

(D; First Friday)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Finish Meiosis - prophase I details, Karyotyping, Non-disjunction.

• Wrap-up the eye color case study.

Finish the linkage webquest. Next class you will also have a Quiz on everything that we have covered since your last TEST including the linkage webquest. Your eye color case study will not be on the Quiz.

Have a good weekend!

3/8/11

(F)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss G banding and gene loci.

• Karyotyping activity.

You will have your Quiz next class

3/10/11

(B)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• QUIZ

• Finish Eye color case study.

 Review eye color notes from today's class.

From page 41, answer questions 3,6 and 7 in your binder.

Your Genbrochure final draft is due next class. You must e-mail me the file and bring in a hard copy to class with you. Remember it is a test grade and you will lose 10points for every day that it is late.

Have a good weekend!

3/14/11

(D; Spirit Week)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Chi square analysis.

Study for your Test next class on Meiosis, Mendelian Genetics, Chromosome structure, Eye color case study, Probability problems + ch2.

Have a good week!

3/16/11

(F; Spirit Week)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• TEST

Relax! catch up on your sleep!

3/18/11

(B; Spirit Week)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Introduce Dihybrid cross and Chi-square.

Practice dihybrid cross with this worksheet.

Also you must finish the Chi-square problem that you started in class.

Have a good weekend!

3/22/11

(D)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss Non-Mendelian Inheritance.

• 'Blood Typing lab' .

Finish questions 1-8 in the lab handout and bring it with you next class.

Have a good week!

3/24/11

(F)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss Multiple alleles and Pleiotropy.

• Start Sex-linkage.

Read pages 63-65 in the text and from page 67 answer Questions 1,2, and 3.

Your 'Blood Typing' lab report is also due next class.

Have a good weekend!

3/28/11

(B)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Practice sex-linkage problems.

• Class works on 'Virtual Drosophila lab'.

Review class-notes and solve problems 6,8, 9 and 11 in your binder.

Also research the Drosophila traits that you used for the cross today and type up paragraph summarizing the two traits (please do not use eye color since you already know about the trait).

Have a good week!

3/30/11

(B)

• Discuss non-disjunction.
• Practice sex-linkage problems.

Have a good day!

3/31/11

(D; Class Mtg)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• QUIZ.

Go to this website -- print out the document and answer the questions as you go along.

Also finish your summary and the fly crosses with the Chi square and bring it with you next class.

Anyone who missed the Quiz today will take the Quiz during class on Monday, April 4th.

Have a good weekend!

4/4/11

(F)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Pedigrees and Inheritance patterns.

Finish the pedigree worksheet. Also bring in any topics etc. that you would like to be discussed in class as we review for the TEST (Sex linkage, Blood typing, Codominance/ Incomplete dominance/Pedigrees/ Dihybrid cross/Xinactivation) on 4/8/11

4/6/11

(B; Career Day)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review for TEST next class.

• Discuss X-inactivation.

Study for your TEST on Ch8 (Sex Linkage), Blood Typing, Linkage webquest, Pedigrees, Codominance,  Incomplete dominance and X inactivation.

 Have a good week!

4/8/11

(D)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• TEST.

Enjoy the weekend!

4/12/11

(F)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Class activity on Transcription and Translation.

• Student powerpoint presentations.

 Read Ch.15 pages 125-128 and from page 131 answer questions 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8.

Have a good day!

4/14/11

(B; Senior Mid-Quarter Reports)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review Gene expression.

• Discuss control of gene expression.

Review class-notes and finish pages 5,6,7 in the packet.

Have a good break!

SPRING AND EASTER BREAK!

4/26/11

(D)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss different kinds of mutation - Point mutations, Frameshift mutations, Nonsense mutations and Missense mutations.

• Explain Transitions and Transversions.

Finish the concept map on mutations and finish answering questions on pages 8 & 9 of the mutation packet.

Have a good week!

4/28/11

(F)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss Chromosomal Mutations.

5/2/11

(B)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss synonymy of the genetic code and review questions from last class.

• QUIZ

Here is the disease presentation from last class alongwith the study guide.

Fragile X     Study Guide

 The study guide questions are due next class.

Have a good week!

5/4/11

(D; Mid-Quarter Reports for all)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Introduce DNA Repair.

Review class-notes.

Also finish the study guide questions below.

Here are the diseases and the study guide questions.

ATM    SCD     

Study Guide

Have a good week!

5/6/11

(F; First Friday)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Finish different types of Repair mechanisms.

 Review class-notes.

Here are the study guide questions.

AD              Tay-Sachs     

Study Guide.

Have a god weekend!

5/10/11

(B)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review.

• Finish anything remaining.

 Review Ch.16 + your notes and answer questions 1-6 from pages 140-141 in the book.

Also read the lab handout and answer the pre-lab questions.

Here is the disease study guide (due on 5/16/11)

Color blindness    Study guide

5/12/11

(D)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• 'DNA Repair' Lab.

Study for your TEST on Gene expression, Mutations, DNA damage and Repair.

5/16/11

(F)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• TEST .

• 'Iceman Mystery' movie.

 Finish the Forensics Anthropolgy activity that you started in class.

Remember to bring in your 'DNA repair Lab' pre-lab + flowchart with you next class.

Also your study guide on 'Colorblindness' is due next class.

 Have a good week!

5/18/11

(B; 1:10)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Continue with Forensics.

• Wrap up DNA repair lab.

• Gel 1, Gel 2

Your DNA repair lab is due next class.

Also read these articles (1 , 2)  and answer questions on the worksheet -- print it out and bring it with you next class.

Have a good week!

5/20/11

(D)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Forensic Serology.

• 'Iceman Mystery' video.

 Study for your Quiz next class on Genetic diseases.

Here is the disease presentations and study guide for the last presentations.

LHON          RB

Have a good weekend!

5/25/11

(F)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• QUIZ on genetic diseases.

• Introduce Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

Try out all the Hardy-Weinberg problems on the worksheet (there must be evidence that you tried -- blank paper will not be OK).

 Also please bring in your laptops with you next class since you will need them in class.

Anyone who missed the Quiz today will take the Quiz during class on Friday, May 27th.

Have a good week!

5/27/11

(B)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Introduce BPA.

• BPA lab activity.

 Study for your Quiz next class on Forensics -- everything that we have covered so far including Fingerprinting (that was done early on).

Have a good weekend!

6/1/11

(D)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review.

• DNA fingerprinting.

Study Guide for the Finals.

6/3/11

(F; First Friday; Grades Close)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• REVIEW.

Prepare for Final Exam