MONDAY IS AN INDEPENDENT REVIEW DAY FOR STUDENTS TO PREPARE FOR FINAL EXAMINATIONS. STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO BRING ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT THEY FEEL NEED CLARIFICATION.
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FINAL EXAM WEEK SCHEDULE FOR THE BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY CLASSES:
HOUR 1: TUESDAY 7:20-8:50
HOUR 2: TUESDAY 9:00-10:30
HOUR 4: WEDNESDAY 9:00-10:30
HOUR 5: THURSDAY 7:20-8:50
HOUR 6: THURSDAY 9:00-10:30
REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW………………………….
Students who still struggle with solution concentration problems need to practice further on past homework assignment on page 508. Furthermore, students need to start reviewing for their last test on mixtures and solutions as well as acids and bases, Chapters 14 and 18 respectively!
Students will create and play a jeopardy game that is based upon the subcomponents of ecology. There will be five categories with each having five responses that the other teams need to come up with questions when asked. The students will have an opportunity to earn extra credit through this game as it will also serve as a review of the material.
We will answer and discuss our lab results on the properties of acid and bases, and then proceed with our review for our last test on Chapter 14 with the focus upon the solution concentration since the test on Section 14.2 was dropped due to the lack of sufficient practice of many students at that time.
Vocabulary:
meiosis, mitosis, gamete, crossing-over, karyotype, centromere, heterozygous, homozygous, F1 Generation, P Generation, transcription, translation, replication, mutation, allele, common ancestor, variation, adaptation, acclimation, natural selection, artificial selection, half-life, homologous structures, analogous structures, divergent evolution, convergent evolution, coevolution, parasite, symbiosis, population, community, biome, ecosystem, habitat, niche, abiotic factor, biotic factor, producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, detritivore, trophic level, decomposer, and pollinator.
Questions:
What happens to the number of chromosomes during meiosis?
What types of cells are produced in meiosis?
Sketch the process of meiosis, showing what is happening to the chromosomes.
What is the normal number of chromosomes in a human body cell? In a human sex cell?
Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis.
What is genetic recombination and what causes it?
Who was Gregor Mendel, and with what is he credited?
In humans, brown eyes (B) are dominant over blue eyes (b). Draw a Punnett square to show a cross between two individuals that are heterozygous for eye color. Give the genotypic and phenotypic ratios.
What is the main (primary) function of DNA?
Sketch the structure of a DNA molecule.
Label the parts of the molecule.
What is a nucleotide?
What three (3) parts make up a nucleotide?
What are the four (4) nucleotides that make up DNA?How are they paired?
What are the four (4) nucleotides that make up RNA? How are they paired?
Compare and contrast DNA and RNA.
Give the complementary strand to the DNA strand with the following sequence: GACTTCAG.
What are the three types of RNA? Give the function of each.
Translate the following mRNA sequence into a protein: AUCGUGAAAUGUAGG
Give an example of when a mutation would be helpful. Give an example of when a mutation would be harmful. Give an example of when a mutation would be neutral.
One parent is homozygous dominant for type B blood. The other parent has type O blood. What blood type will their children have?
What are the chances that parents who are both carriers for a recessive genetic disorder will have a child with the genetic disorder? Show your work using a Punnett square.
What is a sex-linked trait?
In what ways are sex-linked traits different from autosomal traits?
Which parent’s genetic contribution determines the sex of the couple’s child?
Explain how the finches may have evolved on the Galapagos Islands, according to Charles Darwin.
Charles Darwin was not the first person to suggest that living things change over time (evolve), but he was the first to show evidence that living things changed as a result of ____________ ____________.
The bones in the forelimbs of humans, cats, and bats are considered ___________ ____________. This means that humans, cats, and bats descended from a _________________ ________________.
Give three (3) examples of vestigial structures. The wing of a butterfly and the wing of a bird would be considered ______________ ________________.
What does this suggest about their relatedness? Give four (4) examples of abiotic factors.
Describe the niche of an American toad. Give an example of a food chain that would include an American toad.
Why are food chains limited to 3 or 4 “links”?
Approximately how much energy is passed on from one trophic level to the next?
How are the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the water cycle similar?
Define AND give an example of each of the following relationships: Predator-prey, mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, mimicry, camouflage, competition.
Sketch a graph of the world population of humans from your book (p. 391).
During which time periods did the human population grow the slowest and the fastest?
Students will create a jeopardy game through the concepts and ideas that we have discussed throughout our study of the ecological process thus far. The categories shall include: Introduction of Ecology, Ecology of Organisms, Energy Transfer, Biogeochemical Cycles, and Species Interactions.
Students will work in groups of three to examine and document a few properties of acids and bases by running a few experiments that include: Effect on indicators, reactions of acids with metals, and acid-base neutralization. The students will collect and analyze their data, as well as draw the appropriate conclusions that reflect their study of the properties of these dynamic substances.
Students are to complete their study guide on acids and bases by answering the remaining questions #5 through 10 on their handouts. In the remaining time, we will discuss our lab activity for tomorrow on the properties of acids and bases.
Students are to answer the review questions #’s: 6, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, and 23 on page 376 as well as 1-8 plus the short response on page 377. These questions are to be answered on their notebooks.
