End of the Quarter (edited on 4/7)

The end of the 3rd Quarter is coming up!  Make sure that you check Edbox for any missing assignments.  The Deadline for Late Work and Extra Credit is Monday 4/9 by 3:30 pm.  Due to the Snow Day last Thursday, the schedule will be slightly changed.  We will not do in-class test corrections, but all students who have taken the test may due them during FLEX this week.

• Mon 4/2:  Turn in Enzyme Lab and Enzyme Data Analysis.  (Stem Cell Assignment postponed until later).  Introduce Gel Electrophoresis Lab.   Gel electrophoresis techniques lab.  Get your skills checked off by a team member as you do them.  Restriction Enzyme hand-out. 
• Wed 4/4:  First Day of Crime Scene Electrophoresis Lab.  If time, notes on cloning and stem cells.  Stem Cell Assignment due Friday.
• Fri 4/6:  Turn in Stem Cell Assignment (can turn in Monday without penalty).  Finish Crime Scene Lab.  Write up due Mon 4/16.  Hand out Transformation Lab.  Do pre-lab questions on separate paper BEFORE class on Tuesday.
• Mon 4/9:  Late work and extra credit deadline today by 3:30 pm.
• Tues 4/10:  Transformation Lab, Day 1. 
• Thurs 4/12:  Transformation Lab, Day 2.  Ethics of Biotechnology.
• Fri 4/13:  No School.  Teacher Work Day.

Stem Cell Interactive Assignment (due Mon 4/2)

Go to Stem Cell Interactive in links

Read the descriptions as you go, then:

1)Use the coaxing agents to cause different stem cells to grow

2)List 6 different types of stem cells, purpose, and uses in treatment

3)Draw and label the “tree” connecting the different types of cells

3/6-3/23

• Tuesday 3/6:  Transcription/Translation simulation done one at a time in groups.  Meanwhile, work on Enzyme Worksheet.
• Thursday 3/8:  Chapters 16+17 Test.  Finish Enzyme worksheet.
• Monday 3/12:  Turn in Enzyme Worksheet.  Introduce Enzyme Lab.  Practice 3 protocols today and determine limitations, advantages of each. 
• Wed 3/14:  Plan your design by experimenting with the variable and protocol you plan to use.  Make sure that you do everything in your power to control variables and come up with a plan that will provide a sufficient quantity of data.  Submit your completed Design by the end of the period (this WILL be used to assess for the design part of this lab).
• Friday 3/16:   Take data for Enzyme Inquiry.  Clean up.  Start processing data if you have time.  Completed lab due next Thursday 3/22.  Enzyme data analysis hand-out, due Tuesday.
• Tues 3/19:  Turn in Enzyme Data Analysis hand-out.  Hand out Enzyme data analysis hand-out, due Thursday.  Questions on Enzyme Inquiry write-up??  Introduce Beak of the Finch reading and go pick up books.  Start biotechnology. Stem Cell Interactive.
• Thursday 3/21:  Enzyme Inquiry Lab due.  Turn in Enzyme Data Analysis assignment.  In-class test corrections on 16+17 Test.  Stem Cell Website assignment due Monday 4/2.   Notes on stem cells and cloning.  Read 20.1-20.3

16+17 Test on Thursday

These are the topics you should know for the test on Thursday:

Chapter 16:
1)   Race to discover DNA structure (Pauling, Watson & Crick, Franklin & Wilkins)
2)  Basic structure of nucleotides and double helix, hydrogen bonding, base pairing
3)  Be able to describe the replication of DNA, using terminology and names of enzymes correctly
4)  Understand that replication has an editing process that corrects most mismatches
5)  Know what telomeres are and what happens to them in normal somatic cells as the cell divides
6)  Be able to describe the packing of chromatin in chromosomes, including the terms: histones, nucleosomes, "beads on a string"

Chapter 17:
7)  Be able to describe the processes of transciption and translation for eukaryotes using the vocabulary we used in class, which includes:  messenger RNA, RNA polymerase, 5' cap, poly-A tail, introns, exons, transfer RNA, promoter, initiation, elongation, termination, ribosomes (large subunit and small subunit), aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, etc.
8)  Be able to use the genetic code in both directions:  determine amino acid sequence by reading code, write code for a particular amino acid sequence, understand the concepts of codons, anticodons, start signal, stop signals
9)  Be able to explain how point mutations and frameshift mutations can affect the production of a polypeptide and ultimately affect an organism's phenotype, know which type of mutation is most likely to affect the polypeptide, including where in the gene the mutation occurs

IB Topics Covered:
3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1.4
7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4