The Week of 10/27-10/29

• Mon 10/27:  Turn in Skull Lab Hand-Out if not already.  Origins of Life on Earth.  Quiz on Chapters 4-6 of Beak on Wednesday.
• Wed 10/29:  Quiz on Chapters 4-6 of Beak of the Finch.  Beak Lab!  Next Wednesday 11/5 is the last Beak quiz we will be doing on chapters 7-9.

Enjoy your long week-end!  There will be a SPARK lecture on Monday, 11/3.

The Week of 10/20-10/24

• Mon 10/20:  Questions on Hardy-Weinberg?  Notes on Human Evolution.  Finish up Hardy-Weinberg and turn in.  Quiz on Chapters 1-3 of Beak of the Finch on Wednesday.
• Wed 10/22:  Beak Quiz, Chapters 1-3.  Bring your book!  You will get 10 minutes without the book and then 5 minutes with the book to complete the quiz.  Working with hominid skull replicas.  Taking measurements and attempting to classify.
• Fri 10/24:  Finish up with hominid skull replicas.  More on human evolution.  Start Origin of Life on Earth.

The Week of 10/13-10/17

• Mon 10/13:  Go to Book Room to get text books and Beak of the Finch.  Questions on classification?  Intro to natural selection.  Read Chapters 1-3 of Beak for Quiz next Wed 10/22.
• Wed 10/15:  Classification Test.  Evidence for evolution.  
• Fri 10/17:  Natural selection and adaptations.                                      Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium activity, due Monday.

The Week of 10/6-10/9 (kind of late, sorry)

• Mon 10/6:  More work on Animal Posters and animal classification assignment using computers.
• Wed 10/8:  Animal Posters Due.  Evaluate your poster and 5 others.  Turn in evaluation.  Turn in animal classification assignment.  Go over concepts to be on next Wednesday's classification test (see previous entry on website).  Check classification notes.  Using UniProt website to make a cladogram.  Each pair will make a cladogram using UniProt.

Classification Test on Wed 10/15

This is what you need to be able to write about in the Test on Wednesday.

11. Outline the value of classifying organisms.
12. Explain the biochemical evidence provided by the universality of DNA and protein structures for the common ancestry of living organisms.
13. Explain how variations in specific molecules can indicate phylogeny.
14. Discuss how biochemical variations can be used as an evolutionary clock.
15. Define clade and cladistics.
16. Outline the methods used to construct cladograms and the conclusions that can be drawn from them.
17. Discuss the relationship between cladograms and the classification of living organisms
18. Outline the binomial system of nomenclature.
19. List seven levels in the hierarchy of taxa-kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species--using an example from two different kingdoms for each level.
20. Distinguish between the following phyla of animals, using simple external recognition features:  porifera, cnideria, platyhelminthes, annelida, mollusca, and arthropoda.
21. Apply and design a key from a group of up to eight organisms.