Tues. 1-31-17

1.  Get "additional work" if you need more genetics problems because your take-home test score is sub-par.

2.  Meiosis modeling activity (pipe cleaners and plastic plates)

If you are absent today, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1_-mQS_FZ0

Hwk: Review the t-shart of mitosis and meiosis

Monday

1.  Get Spot quiz back

2. Get take-home test back

3.  Practice sex-linked trait problems
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs_2K8/labs/BL_06/index.html

hwk:  Read 11.4

Friday - no schol

Thurs. 1-26-17

1.  Turn in take home test

2.  Get quiz back

3.  Independent Assortment Activity  - pulling milk caps out of a paper bag  :D

hwk:  none

Wed. 1-25-17

1. Quiz

2.  Work on take-home test

hwk: take-home test due tomorrow (Thurs.)

Tues. 1-24-17

1.  Work on take-home test

You may use: friends, the internet, and other experts


hwk: Quiz tomorrow over the genetics vocabulary
         Take home test is due Thursday. 

I can help you on Wednesday, but not if you haven't invested the time to get it mostly done.

Mon. 1-23-17

Today you will be practicing genetics using dragons.

1. Find the tab (scroll down to it) that says "PLAY AS GUEST" under the head GENIVERSE
at this website   https://concord.org/teaching-genetics/dragons

2.  Work through the challenges to practice your understanding of genetics.  (You should at Training and only move up to Apprentice, Journeyman, or Master if you can successfully complete the previous one.)


IF YOU NEED MORE HELP BECAUSE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT >>>>>>>>>


This Khan Academy site will take you through any of the topics that you need help with.  Just click the tab on the right for the subject that you need help with.
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/classical-genetics/mendelian--genetics/a/the-law-of-segregation



HWK:
       Quiz on Wed. (vocab. and Spott WS questions)
       Take home test due Thurs.

Fri 1-20-17

1. Write out the definitions for the vocab. words (They are on the back of your "How to Solve Genetics Problems" WS

(There will be a matching quiz over these, plus the questions from the Spott WS on Wed. Jan. 25.)

2.  Watch Peas in a Pod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUtKcmHzZTE&t=302s


hwk:  Finish writing out vocab. if not done
           Quiz on Wed. Jan. 25
           Take-home test due Thurs. Jan. 26

Thurs. 1-19-17

1.  Get "How to Solve Genetics Problems" / genetics vocab. words  worksheet

2.  Get Take-Home Genetics TEST (due next week Thursday).

3.  Practice doing one trait and 2-trait Punnett Squares  ("Mendel Mania" WS)

4. Discuss how to determine which type of problem you have (1 or 2 trait, dom/rec. or incomplete dom. or co-dom. or multiple alleles, gender)


hwk: start take-home test and work on more practice problems as needed (Use your resources such as the book and the internet to get better at doing genetics problems.)

Wed. 1-18-17

1.  Get quizzes back

2.  spot WS

hwk:  read section 11-2 to be ready for tomorrow

Tues. 1-17-17

1. Video review  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_1QLdtF8d0

2.  Quiz over gene regulation

3.  Intro. to genetics

Mon. 1-16-17

1.  Get test back

2.  Review of gene regulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_1QLdtF8d0

hwk: test review for Gene Regulation (short quiz tomorrow)

Review for Gene regulation quiz

1.     What is gene regulation?

2.     How does gene regulation work?

3.     What is the lac operon? What does it make?

4.     What does the repressor do? How?

5.     Can lactase breakdown other sugars?

6.     What is TATA box?

7.     How is gene regulation different in prokaryotes vs. eukaryotes?

8.     What is cell specialization and how does it related to gene regulation?

9.     Define transcription factors.

10.  What are HOX genes?  Give 2 examples of what they might control.

11.  T/F  HOX genes are similar in all living things.

(Thurs. SNOW DAY) Firday 1-13-17

1.  Read p. 377-383

2.  Do the worksheet packet (questions from the reading)

3.  If time, create a model of gene regulation

hwk: finish packet

Wed. 1-11-17

1.  Go over test review

2. Test (protein synthesis)

hwk: none

Tues 1-10-17

1. Short answer part of test

2.  Notes (handout was given yesterday)

3.  test review WS

Key:

RNA	DNA
Single stranded	Double stranded
Has ribose	Has deoxyribose
Has uracil	Has thymine
3 types	1 type

2.  messenger RNA – carries the instructions from the nucleus to the rivosome

3.  ribosomal RNA – makes up the ribosome

4.  transfer RNA – carries the amino acids and drops them off at the right spot (in the growing chain)

5.  Transcription uses DNA as a template to make mRNA, nucleus

6.  A codon is 3 bases (or nucleotides) in mRNA.

7. The mRNA code is read 1 codon at a time, and only in one direction (beginning to end).

8.  Translation is changing from the language of mRNA to protein (the amino acids in the correct order).

9. An anti-codon is part of the tRNA and it bonds with cododn (base pairing) thus bringing in the proper amino acid.

10.  mRNA carries the instructions from nucleus to ribosome (TRANSCRIPTION), rRNA makes up the ribosome, tRNA transfers the aminon acids (TRANSLATION).

OTHER SIDE:

1.     Griffith – transformation (harmless bacteria changed into deadly bacteria)

a.     Avery – process of elimination, N.A. is the genetic molecule

b.     Hershey/Chase – verification that DNA is genetic moleuclue (virus infecting a bacterium)

2.     DNA

3.     It can be copied, read, and used

4.     A monomer of a nucleic acid (5-C sugar, phosphate group, base)

5.     A-T  and C-G

6.     The DNA unzips, the matching base pairs line up on both sides in opposite directions. You end with 2 double strands – each has a new strand and an original strand

7.     Aatttgcat

8.     An abnormality/error in the DNA

9.     Neutral (not harmful nor beneficial)

Mon. 1-9-16

1. Flyswatter labeling practice

2.  Video clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K8Y0ATkkAI&t=5s

3.  Go over hwk. (formative quiz)

4.  Practice WS "Protein Synthesis"

5.  Notes (get handout)

hwk:  study for short answer part of the test which we will take tomorrow

Fri 1-6-17

1.  Review magnet pieces for protein synthesis  (Read 13-1 and 13-2 if absent)

2.  Watch the videos that are posted on yesterday's post

3.  Take a look at the genetic code chart

hwk:  Practice quiz - Due Monday!!

Thurs. 1-5-17

PROTEIN SYNTHESIS DAY!  (learning logs filled in throughout the hour)

1. Story time (ask a friend)

2. magnets demonstration (ask a friend)

3.  Video clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikq9AcBcohA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG7uCskUOrA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fOXt4MrOM


4.  WS - fill in diagram

Wed. 1-4-17

Welcome back!

1. 2016 the science year in review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ncTCM7t79o

2.  hierarchy WS

3. What do proteins do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izwgt1C8Kus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRN17s50xFk

4.  DNA replication

5.  Notes on RNA


hwk: read 13.1