Wedensday 11/13

Tomorrow we'll be continuing with probability determining 25 traits.  After 1500 "flips" today of all the classes heads came out with just 7 more than tails.  It was 50.3% to 49.7%.

There will be a quiz on Friday covering the lesson we did today.

Second quarter progress reports are already open so please try to get in any extra credit by the end of the week.

Wednesday 11/6

Wednesday is a minimum day and the scheduled quiz has been postponed until Thursday.

You will need to know the cell cycle labelling the stages of interphase, and the steps of mitosis.  You will also have to calculate the percent of time a given cell is in the stages of mitosis based on average cell life spans.

You will also need to know the process of meiosis, mitosis, and why cells divide.  It will not be multiple choice and worth 30 points.

I will accept packets at the beginning of class Thursday, though we will not have time on class tomorrow to work on it.

11/4/13

WOW, week 12 already.

The Mitosis and Meiosis unit ends on Wednesday.

We'll be finishing the vocabulary test on Tuesday and turning in the packets on Wednesday before the test that same day

Next unit is genetics! 

Wednesday 10/30/13

There will be a 18 point vocabulary quiz this Friday.  You should know at least 6 of the words you went over today, as you can choose which six on the quiz.

Packets are due next Wednesday and the unit test will be that day as well.

Tomorrow we'll be covering Meiosis in detail and the important stages of Prophase 1 and Metaphase 1 in establishing genetic variation.

Here is a good link explaining crossing over and independent assortment in Meiosis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCnQOrh7KUg

Have a fun and safe Halloween!

10/21/1310.

Week 10 and the end of the quarter already!

We will be finishing the Photosysnthesis and cellular respiration unit and starting cell division through mitosis and meiosis this week.

The benchmark quarter final is this Wednesday.  We'll be reviewing for part of the period tomorrow and Tuesday and the review guide handout will also be due.

Please put in the time to study the benchmarks are worth 10% of the semester grade.
 

10/14/13

Final grades for quarter 1 are complete.  I will be meeting with all of you on Wednesday to go over progress.

Here's the link to the video the afternoon classes were able to watch today (without buffering problems).  We will be finishing it tomorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GZXRMG5i_w

The American Idle assignment will be extra credit if you perform in front of the class, or make a video.  BE CREATIVE!!!!!



 

10/8/13

TEST and packet due this Thursday

Tomorrow we'll be starting a lab that could take us into the minimum day on Wednesday.

Be sure to finish all pages in the packet and to staple additional pages to it, the data pages and video write up will stay in your notebook to be graded separately.

Here's the link to the "cells alive" website.

www.cellsalive.com