Thursday, December 17, 2009

Week of December 21-22

Biology: Karyotyping activity both days
College Biology: DNA - Cheek/ Strawberry extraction Lab Monday and Tuesday
Earth Science: Begin Weather Unit, Monday and Tuesday
Forest Field Skills: Geocaching lesson - Activity day Tuesday
Life Science: DNA activity, Monday- Activity day Tuesday

Week of December 14- December 18

Biology: Monday, review of chapter 10 test, Chapter 11, Lecture and notes,
Tuesday: Chapter worksheets
Wednesday; Lecture and notes
Thursday: lecture and notes, Chapter review
Friday; Open notes Test
College Biology: Monday - Friday: Work on Objectives for Chapter 16-20
DNA Electrophoresis lab activity ( lab due Thursday)
Prep for Science Fair Judging
Earth Science: Science Fair work all Week
Science Fair: Friday periods 5-7
Forest Field Skills: Finish up UTM activity
Prepare for Final Exam
Life Science: Monday, DNA-RNA - Protein worksheet
Tuesday - Thursday: Science Fair work
Friday: Science Fair Period 5-7

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Life Science Chapter 5 notes

Life Science – Chapter 5
Heredity
Section 1 – Mendel and His Peas
Gregor Mendel – Known as the father of genetics
In 1865 he published his results of genetics and pea plants
Found patterns – some parents would have a trait
The trait would not be in the next generation
Then it would show up again in the following generation
Why Mendel used pea plants
There are many different types of pea plants
They reproduce quickly
Self pollinating plants ( fig 3)
Seed shape – round, wrinkled
Plant height – tall, short
Flower color – purple, white
True breeding plants – always produce offspring with the same characteristics (seed shape, color etc.)
Mendel’s experiments
Crossed two pure parents with different traits
Round seeds to Wrinkled seeds
All offspring were round seeds
This showed that round was dominant and wrinkled recessive
Crossed two 2nd generation plants (all showed round seeds)
Their offspring had some wrinkled seeds
 
 
Mendel counted the seeds, flowers etc. of many crosses of plants and found the ratio’s of Dominant to Recessive ( page 110)
Punnett Squares
Used to estimate the possible alleles from two parents
Genes – the set of instructions found in DNA
Alleles – the genes that could appear
Round seed and wrinkled seed
Each organism has two alleles
One from its mother and one from its father
The "letters" in a Punnett square represent the Genotype – the genes they got from their parents
The way an offspring looks is its phenotype
Round seeds, purple flowers etc.
punnett square practice (click here)
Probability
The mathematical chance that an event will occur
½ x 100 = 50%
½ x ½ = ¼ = 25%
Section 2: Meiosis
Two kinds of reproduction
1. Asexual reproduction – one cell divides and makes two (mitosis) Only one parent involved
2. Sexual reproduction – two parent cells combine to make one offspring
The parent cells are called sex cells
Sex cells must have ½ the number of chromosomes as a regular cell or the offspring would have too many
Meiosis produces sex cells

Walter Sutton
Studied sperm cells in grasshoppers.
Compared them to eggs and realized that they both contained chromosomes
Realized that Genes must be located on chromosomes
This was a very important discovery in genetics
Mitosis – 6 steps
1. Copies of chromosomes are made
2. Chromosomes thicken and shorten
3. Chromosomes line up at the equator middle of the cell
4. Chromatids pull apart
5. New nuclear membranes form
6. Two identical cells are made.

Meiosis 8 steps
1.Chromosomes copy themselves
2.Homologous chromosomes line up (one from each parent
3.Chromosomes separate
4. Nuclear membrane forms
5. Each new cell now contains on chromosome pair
6. They line up at the equator
7. They separate to opposite sides of the cell
8. A new nuclear membrane forms, each new cell has ½ the number of chromosomes
 
Meiosis Animation (click here)
Meiosis and Mendel
Meiosis helps to explain why Mendel’s theories work
If the allele’s from each parent separate during meiosis then each new generation receives 1 allele from each parent.

Male or female
A female has 23 matched pairs of chromosomes
A male has 22 matched pairs of chromosomes and 1 unmatched pair
The father determines if the offspring will be boys or girls (page 119)
Girls XX chromosomes
Boys XY Chromosomes
Karoytyping
What Can Our Chromosomes Tell Us? (click here)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

This weeks assignments

November 16-November 19

Biology: Finish notes on Chapter 9, online lab activity in class, In lab activity on Mitosis, Chapter review worksheets. Test is scheduled for Tuesday November 24th

College Biology: Lecture Chapter 14, do questions at the end of the chapter. Wed. & Thurs.: worksheets for chapter and review over "problem questions" Next week chapter 15

Earth Science: Finish notes on Chapter 6 - Tsunami movie, Finding and Epicenter lab activity, Chapter worksheets. Test scheduled for Tuesday Nov. 24th

Life Science: Lecture on Punnett squares, Section review questions, Directed Reading, Lab activity ( IF behavior improves)

Forest Field Skills: Outside labs all week if weather allows; GPS work

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Tuesday November 3, 2009

Biology: Lecture review of Photosynthesis, New lecture notes on respiration. If you are absent make sure that you carefully read over the sections and be ready to ask questions of what you don't understand.

College biology: Lecture on cell membranes I'll finish the lecture tomorrow. Make sure that you make flashcards or something to help you remember the parts of a cell and thier function Test on chapters 6&7 or 7& 8 will be on Friday.

Earth Science: Test of Chapter 5 scheduled for tomorrow. Today we worked on the review and corrected the chapter worksheets in class. be thinking about your science fair project

Forest Field Skills: mapping and map scales today. tomorrow Lori Schmidt will be here to work with us on the GPS make sure you bring warm clothes.

Life Science: finish notes for chapter 4 and finish science fiction story

Monday, November 2, 2009

Monday November 2, 2009

What's happening in science classes today

1st hour Biology : Lecture and notes on chapter 8 section 2 Photosynthesis. If you missed class read over the section "CAREFULLY" and try to make sense of it. If your haveing trouble, try to write specific questions for me to answer.

2nd Hour College Biology: Started in on Chapter 7 (green book) or Chapter 6 (black book) Introduction to the cell. YOU must know the parts of the cell and their function. Start making flashcards and get them memorized.

3rd Hour Earth Science: reviewed the topics of isostacy, stress, and faults and folds from Chapter 5. Watched the Mountain building movie and took notes today.

6th hour Forest Field Skills: Marked longitudinal and latitudinal lines on our babbitt Quardrangles. Lori Schmidt comes to class on Wednesday to help with GPS.

7th hour Life Science: Started reading story, the class still needs to work on keeping quiet during transistions from one activity to another............